24 So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord. And he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tent. 25 Then the Lord ^acame down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. And ^bas soon as the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied. But they did not continue doing it.

26 Now two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the Spirit rested on them. They were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp. 27 And a young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.” 28 And Joshua the son of Nun, ^cthe assistant of Moses from his youth, said, “My lord Moses, ^dstop them.” 29 But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? ^eWould that all the Lord’s people were prophets, that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!”

Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses

1 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman. 2 ^mAnd they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?” And the Lord heard it. 3 Now the man Moses was very ⁿmeek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth. 4 And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting.” And the three of them came out. 5 And the Lord ^ocame down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward. 6 And he said, “Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision; ^pI speak with him in a dream. 7 ^qNot so with my servant Moses. He is faithful in all my house. 8 With him I speak ^rmouth to mouth, ^sclearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?” 9 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them, and he departed.

10 ^tWhen the cloud removed from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous,^{1 u}like snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam, and behold, she was leprous. 11 And Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, do not punish us² because we have done foolishly and have sinned. 12 Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother’s womb.” 13 And Moses cried to the Lord, “O God, please heal her—please.” 14 But the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had but ^vspit in her face, should she not be shamed seven days? ^wLet her be shut outside the camp seven days, and after that she may be brought in again.” 15 So Miriam was shut outside the camp seven days, and the people did not set out on the march till Miriam was brought in again. 16 ^xAfter that the people set out from Hazeroth, and camped in the wilderness of ^yParan.

The Coming of the Kingdom

20 ^lBeing asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The ^mkingdom of God is not coming in ways that can be observed, 21 nor will they say, ⁿ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”¹

22 And he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. 23 And they will say to you, ‘Look, there!’ or ‘Look, here!’ Do not go out or follow them. 24 For as the ^olightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.² 25 But first he must ^psuffer many things and be ^qrejected by this generation. 26 Just as it was in the ^rdays of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 27 They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, ^suntil the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, 29 but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, ^tfire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all— 30 so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is ^urevealed. 31 On that day, ^vlet the one who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away, and likewise ^wlet the one who is in the field not turn back. 32 ^xRemember Lot’s wife. 33 ^yWhoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it. 34 I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken and the other left. 35 There will be two women grinding together. One will be taken and the other left.”³ 37 And they said to him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, ^z“Where the corpse⁴ is, there the vultures⁵ will gather.”