Matthew 24:17-41

17let him that is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house:

18and let him that is in the field not return back to take his cloke.

19But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!

20And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on a sabbath:

21for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be.

22And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

23Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is the Christ, or, Here; believe it not.

24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

25Behold, I have told you beforehand.

26If therefore they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the wilderness; go not forth: Behold, he is in the inner chambers; believe it not.

27For as the lightning cometh forth from the east, and is seen even unto the west; so shall be the coming of the Son of man.

28Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

29But immediately, after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

30and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

31And he shall send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

32Now from the fig tree learn her parable: when her branch is now become tender, and putteth forth its leaves, ye know that the summer is nigh;

33even so ye also, when ye see all these things, know ye that he is nigh, even at the doors.

34Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all these things be accomplished.

35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

36But of that day and hour knoweth no one, not even the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but the Father only.

37And as were the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of the Son of man.

38For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,

39and they knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall be the coming of the Son of man.

40Then shall two men be in the field; one is taken, and one is left:

41two women shall be grinding at the mill; one is taken, and one is left.