Luke 17:26-29

17:26 Just ¹  as it was ²  in the days of Noah, ³  so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man. 17:27 People ⁴  were eating, ⁵  they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then ⁶  the flood came and destroyed them all. ⁷  17:28 Likewise, just as it was ⁸  in the days of Lot, people ⁹  were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building; 17:29 but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. ¹⁰ 

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¹ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

² tn Or “as it happened.”

³ sn Like the days of Noah, the time of the flood in Gen 6:5-8:22, the judgment will come as a surprise as people live their day to day lives.

⁴ tn Grk “They.” The plural in Greek is indefinite, referring to people in general.

⁵ tn These verbs (“eating… drinking… marrying… being given in marriage”) are all progressive imperfects, describing action in progress at that time.

⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

⁷ sn Like that flood came and destroyed them all, the coming judgment associated with the Son of Man will condemn many.

⁸ tn Or “as it happened.”

⁹ tn Grk “they.” The plural in Greek is indefinite, referring to people in general.

¹⁰ sn And destroyed them all. The coming of the Son of Man will be like the judgment on Sodom, one of the most immoral places of the OT (Gen 19:16-17; Deut 32:32-33; Isa 1:10).