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And he said to his disciples: The days will come when you shall desire to see one day of the Son of man. And you shall not see it.
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And they will say to you: See here, and see there. Go ye not after, nor follow them.
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For as the lightning that lighteneth from under heaven shineth unto the parts that are under heaven, so shall the Son of man be in his day.
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But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
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And as it came to pass in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
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They did eat and drink, they married wives and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.
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Likewise as it came to pass in the days of Lot. They did eat and drink, they bought and sold, they planted and built.
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And in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
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Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man shall be revealed.
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In that hour, he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and he that shall be in the field, in like manner, let him not return back.