017:025 But first He must endure much suffering, and be rejected
by the present generation.
017:026 "And as it was in the time of Noah, so will it also be in the time
of the Son of Man.
017:027 Men were eating and drinking, taking wives and giving wives,
up to the very day on which Noah entered the Ark, and the Deluge
came and destroyed them all.
017:028 The same was true in the time of Lot: they were eating
and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building;
017:029 but on the day that Lot left Sodom, God rained fire and brimstone
from the sky and destroyed them all.
017:030 Exactly so will it be on the day that the veil is lifted
from the Son of Man.
017:031 "On that day, if a man is on the roof and his property indoors,
let him not go down to fetch it; and, in the same way,
he who is in the field, let him not turn back.
017:032 Remember Lot's wife.
017:033 Any man who makes it his object to keep his own life safe,
will lose it; but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
017:034 On that night, I tell you, there will be two men in one bed:
one will be taken away and the other left behind.
017:035 There will be two women turning the mill together:
one will be taken away and the other left behind."
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017:037 "Where, Master?" they inquired. "Where the dead body is,"
He replied, "there also will the vultures flock together."
018:001 He also taught them by a parable that they must always pray
and never lose heart.
018:002 "In a certain town," He said, "there was a judge who had no
fear of God and no respect for man.