Matthew 24:27 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

²⁷ For, just as lightning will start from the east and flash across to the west, so will it be with the Coming of the Son of Man.

²⁰ "Foxes have holes," answered Jesus, "and wild birds their roosting-places, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."

²⁸ I tell you, some of those who are standing here will not know death till they have seen the Son of Man coming into his Kingdom."

³ So, while Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, his disciples came up to him privately and said: "Tell us when this will be, and what will be the sign of your Coming, and of the close of the age."

³⁷ For, just as in the days of Noah, so will it be at the Coming of the Son of Man.

³⁹ Taking not notice till the flood came and swept them one and all away; and so will it be at the Coming of the Son of Man.

²⁴ For, just as lightning will lighten and flare from one side of the heavens to the other, so will it be with the Son of Man. ²⁵ But first he must undergo much suffering, and he must be rejected by the present generation. ²⁶ As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be again in the days of the Son of Man. ²⁷ They were eating and drinking and marrying and being married, up to the very day on which Noah entered the ark, and then the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸ So, too, in the days of Lot. People were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building; ²⁹ But, on the very day on which Lot came out of Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from the skies and destroyed them all. ³⁰ It will be the same on the day on which the Son of Man reveals himself. ³¹ On that day, if a man is on his house-top and his goods in the house, he must not go down to get them; nor again must one who is on the farm turn back. ³² Remember Lot's wife. ³³ Whoever is eager to get the most out of his life will lose it; but whoever will lose it shall preserve it. ³⁴ On that night, I tell you, of two men upon the same bed, one will be taken and the other left; ³⁵ Of two women grinding together, one will be taken and the other left." ³⁶ OMITTED TEXT ³⁷ "Where will it be, Master?" interposed the disciples. "Where there is a body," said Jesus, "'there will the vultures flock.'"

⁸ And you must be patient also, and not be discouraged; for the Lord's Coming is near.

⁴ will come and ask scoffingly-- 'Where is his promised Coming? Ever since our fathers passed to their rest, everything remains just as it was when the world was first created!'