Luke 17:22-37

Second Coming Foretold

22 And He said to the disciples, "¹The 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 "²They will say to you, 'Look there! Look here!' Do not go away, and do not run after them.

24 "³For 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 "⁴But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

26 "⁵And just as it happened ⁶in 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 ⁷the 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 ⁸is revealed.

31 "On that day, the one who is ⁹on 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 "¹⁰Remember Lot's wife.

33 "¹¹Whoever * 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 "¹²There will be two women grinding at the same place; one will be taken and the other will be left.

36 [ "¹³Two 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, "¹⁴Where the body is, there also the vultures will be gathered."

Cross References

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

Footnotes

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