Luke 17:21-31

21 nor will 1they say, 'Look, here it is!' or, 'There it is!' For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst."

Second Coming Foretold

22 And He said to the disciples, "2The 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 "3They will say to you, 'Look there! Look here!' Do not go away, and do not run after them.
24 "4For just like the lightning, when it flashes out of one part of the sky, shines to the other part of the sky, so will the Son of Man be in His day.
25 "5But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
26 "6And just as it happened 7in the days of Noah, so it will be also 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 that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
28 "It was the same as happened in 8the 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 brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
30 "It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man 9is revealed.
31 "On that day, the one who is 10on the housetop and whose goods are in the house must not go down to take them out; and likewise the one who is in the field must not turn back *.

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Cross References 10

  • 1. Luke 17:23
  • 2. Matthew 9:15; Mark 2:20; Luke 5:35
  • 3. Matthew 24:23; Mark 13:21; Luke 21:8
  • 4. Matthew 24:27
  • 5. Matthew 16:21; Luke 9:22
  • 6. Luke 17:26, 27: {Matthew 24:37-39}
  • 7. Genesis 6:5-8; Genesis 7
  • 8. Genesis 19
  • 9. Matthew 16:27; 1 Corinthians 1:7; Colossians 3:4; 2 Thessalonians 1:7; 1 Peter 1:7; 1 Peter 4:13; 1 John 2:28
  • 10. Matthew 24:17, 18; Mark 13:15; Luke 21:21

Footnotes 6

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