Discovery BoxLuke 17:32 
Context17:32 Remember Lot’s wife! 1
Luke 17:28-29
Context17:28 Likewise, just as it was 2 in the days of Lot, people 3 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. 4
1 sn An allusion to Gen 19:26. The warning about Lot’s wife is not to look back and long to be where one used to be. The world is being judged, and the person who delays or turns back will be destroyed.
2 tn Or “as it happened.”
3 tn Grk “they.” The plural in Greek is indefinite, referring to people in general.
4 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).
