Rejoice and be glad because your reward is great in heaven, for they persecuted the prophets before you in the same way.

Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

They cried out, “Son of God, leave us alone! Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’

For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.