24for as the lightning that is lightening out of the one [part] under heaven, to the other part under heaven doth shine, so shall be also the Son of Man in his day;
25and first it behoveth him to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this generation.
26`And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man;
27they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all;
28in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;
29and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.
30`According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed;