²⁵ But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by ·the people of this time [^Lthis generation]. ²⁶ Just as it was ·when Noah lived [^Lin the days of Noah; Gen. 6—9], so it will be ·when the Son of Man comes again [^Lin the days of the Son of Man]. ²⁷ People were eating, drinking, marrying, and ·giving their children to be married [or being given in marriage] until the day Noah entered the boat. Then the flood came and ·killed [destroyed] them all.