Luke 17:20-37

New King James Version

The Coming of the Kingdom^(A)

²⁰Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; ²¹^(B)nor will they say, ^[a]‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, ^(C)the kingdom of God is ^[b]within you.”

²²Then He said to the disciples, ^(D)“The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. ²³^(E)And they will say to you, ^[c]‘Look here!’ or ‘Look there!’ Do not go after them or follow them. ²⁴^(F)For as the lightning that flashes out of one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so also the Son of Man will be in His day. ²⁵^(G)But first He must suffer many things and be ^(H)rejected by this generation. ²⁶^(I)And as it ^(J)was in the ^(K)days of ^(L)Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: ²⁷They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the ^(M)day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and ^(N)destroyed them all. ²⁸^(O)Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; ²⁹but on ^(P)the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man ^(Q)is revealed.

³¹“In that day, he ^(R)who is on the housetop, and his ^[d]goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back. ³²^(S)Remember Lot’s wife. ³³^(T)Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. ³⁴^(U)I tell you, in that night there will be two ^[e]men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left. ³⁵^(V)Two women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left. ³⁶^[f]Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left.”