³⁷ Remember what happened when Noah was alive.^[a] It will be like that when the Son of Man returns to the earth. ³⁸ In Noah's time, in the days before the flood, people were eating their meals every day. Men married women and women married men. They continued to do all these things until the day that Noah went into his big boat. ³⁹ The people did not know what would happen. Then rain fell for a long time and all these people died in the deep water. When the Son of Man returns, it will happen quickly in the same way.