Luke 17:20-37

Luke 17

The Kingdom of God Is Within You

²⁰ The Pharisees asked Jesus when the kingdom of God would come. Jesus answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming in a way you can observe, ²¹ nor will people say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘Look, there it is!’ because the kingdom of God is within ^[1] you.”

Jesus Will Return

²² He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. ²³ They will tell you, ‘Look, there he is!’ or ‘Look, here he is!’ Do not go out or chase after them, ²⁴ for the Son of Man in his day will be like the lightning that flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other side. ²⁵ But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. ²⁶ Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it also be in the days of the Son of Man. ²⁷ They were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸ Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot: They were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, ²⁹ but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰ It will be the same on the day the Son of Man is revealed. ³¹ On that day, the person who is on the roof and has belongings in the house should not go down to get them. Likewise, the person in the field should not turn back for anything. ³² Remember Lot’s wife! ³³ Whoever tries to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it. ³⁴ I tell you, on that night there will be two people in one bed. One will be taken, and the other will be left. ³⁵ There will be two women grinding grain at the same place. One will be taken, and the other will be left.” ^[2]

³⁷ “Where, Lord?” they asked him.

He said to them, “Where the corpse is, there the vultures will be gathered.”