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And He said to him, "Rise and go: your faith has cured you."
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Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God was coming, He answered, "The Kingdom of God does not so come that you can stealthily watch for it.
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Nor will they say, `See here!' or `See there!' --for the Kingdom of God is within you."
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Then, turning to His disciples, He said, "There will come a time when you will wish you could see a single one of the days of the Son of Man, but will not see one.
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And they will say to you, `See there!' `See here!' Do not start off and go in pursuit.
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For just as the lightning, when it flashes, shines from one part of the horizon to the opposite part, so will the Son of Man be on His day.
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But first He must endure much suffering, and be rejected by the present generation.
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"And as it was in the time of Noah, so will it also be in the time of the Son of Man.
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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.
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The same was true in the time of Lot: they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building;
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but on the day that Lot left Sodom, God rained fire and brimstone from the sky and destroyed them all.