Luke 17:20-37

20 Now having been questioned by the Pharisees ¹as to when the kingdom of God was coming, He answered them and said, "The kingdom of God is not coming with ²signs to be observed;

21 nor will ³they 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, "⁴The 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 "⁵They will say to you, 'Look there! Look here!' Do not go away, and do not run after them.

24 "⁶For 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 "⁷But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

26 "⁸And just as it happened ⁹in 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 ¹⁰the 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 ¹¹is revealed.

31 "On that day, the one who is ¹²on 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 *.

32 "¹³Remember Lot's wife.

33 "¹⁴Whoever * seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever * loses his life will preserve 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 "¹⁵There will be two women grinding at the same place; one will be taken and the other will be left.

36 [ "¹⁶Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other will be left."]

37 And answering they said to Him, "Where, Lord?" And He said to them, "¹⁷Where the body is, there also the vultures will be gathered."

Cross References

• 1. Luke 19:11; Acts 1:6
• 2. Luke 14:1
• 3. Luke 17:23
• 4. Matthew 9:15; Mark 2:20; Luke 5:35
• 5. Matthew 24:23; Mark 13:21; Luke 21:8
• 6. Matthew 24:27
• 7. Matthew 16:21; Luke 9:22
• 8. Luke 17:26, 27: {Matthew 24:37-39}
• 9. Genesis 6:5-8; Genesis 7
• 10. Genesis 19
• 11. 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
• 12. Matthew 24:17, 18; Mark 13:15; Luke 21:21
• 13. Genesis 19:26
• 14. Matthew 10:39
• 15. Matthew 24:41
• 16. Matthew 24:40
• 17. Matthew 24:28

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "observation"
• [b]. Or "within you"
• [c]. Lit "under heaven"
• [d]. Lit "under heaven"
• [e]. Lit "In the same way as"
• [f]. I.e. burning sulfur
• [g]. Lit "according to the same things"
• [h]. Or "soul"
• [i]. Early mss do not contain this v
• [j]. Or "eagles"