22And he said to his disciples, The time will come when you will have a great desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, but you will not see it.
23And if they say to you, See, it is there! or, It is here! do not go away, or go after them.
24For as in a thunderstorm the bright light is seen from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be when his time comes.
25But first, he will have to undergo much and be put on one side by this generation.
26And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the day of the Son of man.
27They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction.
28In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building;
