17:21 - They will not say It is here! or It is there!, because the kingdom of God is inside you.
17:22 - And unto the disciples he said, The time will come, when you will long to see the days of the Son of man, but you will not.
17:23 - They will say to you, see here or there: but do not go after them or follow them.
17:24 - Because like lightning, that doesn’t light one part under heaven, shines onto another part, like the Son of man in his day.
17:25 - But first he has to go through a lot of hardships, and be rejected by his peers.
17:26 - It will be so in the days of the Son of man just as it was in the days of Noe.
17:27 - People led their normal lives, eating, drinking, getting married, until the very day Noah got into his boat. Then the flood happened and they were all destroyed.
17:28 - It was also like this in Lot’s day during which they went about their daily lives, trading, farming and building.
17:29 - On the same day that Lot left Sodom, it was bombed and everyone was destroyed.
17:30 - This is how it will be when the Son of man is identified.
