Luke 17:22-37
New American Standard Bible
22 And He said to the disciples, “(A)The days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. 23 (B)And they will say to you, ‘Look there,’ or, ‘Look here!’ Do not leave, and do not run after them. 24 (C)For just like the lightning, when it flashes out of one part [a]of the sky, shines to the other part [b]of the sky, so will the Son of Man be in His day. 25 (D)But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. 26 (E)And just as it happened (F)in the days of Noah, so will it also be in the days of the Son of Man: 27 people were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, and they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 [c]It was the same as happened in (G)the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, and they were building; 29 but on the day that Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and [d]brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 It will be [e]just the same on the day that the Son of Man (H)is revealed. 31 On that day, the one who will be (I)on the [f]housetop, [g]with his goods in the house, must not go down to take them out; and likewise the one in the field must not turn back. 32 (J)Remember Lot’s wife. 33 (K)Whoever strives to [h]save his [i]life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will keep it. 34 I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left. 35 (L)There will be two women grinding at the same place; one will be taken and the other will be left. 36 [[j](M)Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other will be left.”] 37 And responding, they *said to Him, “Where, Lord?” And He said to them, “(N)Where the body is, there also the [k]vultures will be gathered.”
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- Luke 17:24 Lit under heaven; i.e., the lowest heaven, the sky
- Luke 17:24 Lit under heaven; i.e., the lowest heaven, the sky
- Luke 17:28 Lit In the same way as
- Luke 17:29 I.e., burning sulfur
- Luke 17:30 Lit according to the same things
- Luke 17:31 Housetops were flat living areas
- Luke 17:31 Lit and his
- Luke 17:33 Or secure
- Luke 17:33 Or soul
- Luke 17:36 Early mss do not contain this v
- Luke 17:37 Or eagles
Luke 17:22-37
Lexham English Bible
The Coming of the Son of Man
22 And he said to the disciples, “Days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.[a] 23 And they will say to you, ‘Behold, there!’ ‘Behold, here!’[b] Do not go out or run after them![c] 24 For just as the lightning shines forth, flashing from one place under heaven to another place under heaven, so the Son of Man will be in his day. 25 But first it is necessary for him to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this generation. 26 And just as it was in the days of Noah, so also it will be in the days of the Son of Man— 27 they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building. 29 But on the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 It will be just the same[d] on the day that the Son of Man is revealed. 31 On that day, whoever is on the housetop and his goods are in the house must not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field must not turn back 32 Remember Lot’s wife! 33 Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it[e] will keep it. 34 I tell you that in that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left. 35 There will be two women[f] grinding at the same place; one will be taken and the other will be left.”[g]
37 And they answered and[h] said to him, “Where, Lord?” So he said to them, “Where the dead body is, there also the vultures will be gathered.”
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- Luke 17:22 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
- Luke 17:23 Some manuscripts have “‘Behold, there!’ or ‘Behold, here!’”
- Luke 17:23 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
- Luke 17:30 Literally “according to the same”
- Luke 17:33 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
- Luke 17:35 Here “women” is supplied because the form (“two”) is feminine gender in Greek
- Luke 17:35 A few manuscripts add v. 36 (with some variations): “There will be two in the field; one will be taken and the other will be left.”
- Luke 17:37 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb
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