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Gospel Reading - The Coming of the Son of Man

²⁶“When I return^a the world will be as indifferent to the things of God as the people were in Noah’s day. ²⁷They ate and drank and married — everything just as usual right up to the day when Noah went into the ark and the Flood came and destroyed them all.

²⁸“And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot: people went about their daily business—eating and drinking, buying and selling, farming and building— ²⁹until the morning Lot left Sodom. Then fire and brimstone rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰Yes, it will be ‘business as usual’ right up to the hour of my return.^b

³¹“Those away from home that day must not return to pack; those in the fields must not return to town— ³² remember what happened to Lot’s wife! ³³Whoever clings to his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life shall save it. ³⁴That night two men will be asleep in the same room, and one will be taken away, the other left. ^35-36Two women will be working together at household tasks; one will be taken, the other left; and so it will be with men working side by side in the fields.”

³⁷“Lord, where will they be taken?” the disciples asked.

Jesus replied, “Where the body is, the vultures gather!”^c

1. When I return, implied. as indifferent to the things of God, implied.
2. Or “the hour I am revealed.”
3. This may mean that God’s people will be taken out to the execution grounds and their bodies left to the vultures.