Luke 17:20-37

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Jesus Teaches about the Holy Nation of God

²⁰ The proud religious law-keepers asked when the holy nation of God would come. Jesus said to them, “The holy nation of God is not coming in such a way that can be seen with the eyes. ²¹ It will not be said, ‘See, here it is!’ or, ‘There it is!’ For the holy nation of God is in you.”

Jesus Tells of His Second Coming

²² Jesus said to His followers, “The time will come when you will wish you could see the Son of Man for one day. But you will not be able to. ²³ They will say to you, ‘He is here,’ or, ‘He is there,’ but do not follow them. ²⁴ When the Son of Man comes, He will be as lightning that shines from one part of the sky to the other. ²⁵ But before that, He must suffer many hard things. The people of this day will have nothing to do with Him.

²⁶ “As it was in the time of Noah, so will it be when the Son of Man comes back. ²⁷ People ate and drank. They married and were given in marriage. They did these things until the day Noah went into the large boat. Then the flood came and killed all the people on earth. ²⁸ It was the same in the time of Lot. People ate and drank. They bought and sold. They planted and built. ²⁹ But the day Lot left the city of Sodom, fire and sulphur came down from heaven like rain. It killed all the people of Sodom.

³⁰ “It will be the same on the day when the Son of Man comes again. ³¹ In that day the man who is on top of a house should not come down to take his things out of the house. In the same way, the man who is in the field should not go back to his house. ³² Remember Lot’s wife!

³³ “He who wants to keep his life will have it taken away from him. He who loses his life will have it given back to him. ³⁴ I tell you, on that night there will be two men in the same bed. One of them will be taken. The other will be left. ³⁵ Two women will be grinding grain together. One of them will be taken. The other will be left. ³⁶ *Two men will be working in a field. One will be taken. The other will be left.”

³⁷ Then they asked Jesus, “Where will this happen?” He said to them, “Birds also gather where there is a dead body.”