bitterly, and they shall see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. (31)And he shall send forth his angels with a trumpet, and a great shout, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the extremities of the heavens to the extremities of the same. (32)Learn then a parable from the fig-tree; when its branch is now tender, and the leaves shoot forth, ye know that summer is nigh: (33)just so ye, when ye behold these things, know that it is near, even at the gates. (34)Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away until all these things shall be done. (35)Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall in no wise pass away. (36)But of that day and hour no man knoweth, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father alone. (37)But as the days of Noah were, so also shall the coming of the Son of man be. (38)For as they were in the days preceding the deluge, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, (39)and they knew it not till the deluge came, and swept them all away; such also shall the coming of the Son of man be. (40)Then two shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other dismissed. (41)Two women grinding at the mill; the one taken, the other dismissed. (42)Watch therefore: for ye know not at what hour your Master cometh. (43)And this observe, that if the master of the family had known in which watch of the night the thief would have come, he would have watched, and not have suffered him to break into his house. (44)Therefore be ye also prepared: for in an hour that ye think not, the Son of man cometh. (45)Who then is the faithful and provident servant, whom his Lord hath appointed over his household, to give them meat in the proper time? (46)Blessed is that servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find thus occupied. (47)Verily I say unto you, that he will place him over all his substance. (48)But if that wicked servant say in his heart, My master will be a long while ere he comes; (49)and shall begin to beat his fellow-servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; (50)the master of that servant will come in a day that he doth not expect him, and at an hour which he knoweth not. (51)And will cut him asunder, and give him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. CHAP. XXV.