For just like the lightning flashes<n id="1" /> and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.<n id="2" />

People<n id="1" /> were eating,<n id="2" /> they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage &#8211; right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then<n id="3" /> the flood came and destroyed them all.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> the disciples<n id="2" /> said<n id="3" /> to him, &#8220;Where,<n id="4" /> Lord?&#8221; He replied to them, &#8220;Where the dead body<n id="5" /> is, there the vultures<n id="6" /> will gather.&#8221;<n id="7" />p>

Won&#8217;t<n id="1" /> God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out<n id="2" /> to him day and night?<n id="3" /> Will he delay<n id="4" /> long to help them?

When Jesus noticed this,<n id="1" /> he said, &#8220;How hard<n id="2" /> it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!<n id="3" />

And immediately he regained<n id="1" /> his sight and followed Jesus,<n id="2" /> praising<n id="3" /> God. When<n id="4" /> all the people saw it, they too<n id="5" /> gave praise to God.p>

Then<n id="1" /> Jesus said to him, &#8220;Today salvation<n id="2" /> has come to this household,<n id="3" /> because he too is a son of Abraham!<n id="4" />

Then another<n id="1" /> slave<n id="2" /> came and said, &#8216;Sir, here is<n id="3" /> your mina that I put away for safekeeping<n id="4" /> in a piece of cloth.<n id="5" />

&#8216;I tell you that everyone who has will be given more,<n id="1" /> but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.<n id="2" />

saying to them, &#8220;It is written, &#8216;<b><i>My house will be a house of prayeri>b>,&#8217;<n id="1" /> but you have turned it into <b><i>a deni>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>of robbersi>b>!&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

But if we say, &#8216;From people,&#8217; all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.&#8221;

Then<n id="1" /> the owner of the vineyard said, &#8216;What should I do? I will send my one dear son;<n id="2" /> perhaps they will respect him.&#8217;

But when the tenants saw him, they said to one another, &#8216;This is the heir; let&#8217;s kill him so the inheritance will be ours!&#8217;

For the Son of Man is to go just as it has been determined,<n id="1" /> but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!&#8221;

So<n id="1" /> they began to question one another as to which of them it could possibly be who would do this.p>

So<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> said to them, &#8220;The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in authority over them are called &#8216;benefactors.&#8217;<n id="3" />

And in his anguish<n id="1" /> he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.]<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">While he was still speaking, suddenly a crowd appeared,<n id="1" /> and the man named Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He walked up<n id="2" /> to Jesus to kiss him.<n id="3" />

Then<n id="1" /> a little later someone else<n id="2" /> saw him and said, &#8220;You are one of them too.&#8221; But Peter said, &#8220;Man,<n id="3" /> I am not!&#8221;

and said, &#8220;If<n id="1" /> you are the Christ,<n id="2" /> tell us.&#8221; But he said to them, &#8220;If<n id="3" /> I tell you, you will not<n id="4" /> believe,