luke-17:26-29,-matthew-24:36-39

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 17:20-37

The kingdom and the day of the Son of man. This passage is not to be isolated as if it were a definition complete in itself of Christ's view of the kingdom of God. Some, doing this, have found in it a justification of the teaching that God's kingdom has no external character, that the coming of the Lord is only a revelation of truth in and to the heart of man. This is to do violence to the language of Jesus. In what he says afterwards to his own, in the solemn discourse reported two... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 17:20-37

The advent of the kingdom and the King. Jesus was on journey to Jerusalem when the ingratitude of the nine lepers, just noticed, took place, and this gave rise to speculation as to the near approach of his kingdom. His enemies, the Pharisees, put the sarcastic question when the kingdom of God should come, as much as to say, "We have heard of it long; we should like to see it." £ This leads our Lord to unfold the nature of his kingdom's advent and of his own. I. HIS KINGDOM COMES... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 17:26-28

As it was in the days of Nee (Noah) … as it was in the days of Lot . The prominent sin of the antediluvian, he reminds them, was sensuality in its varied forms. The torch of religious feeling will have waned in that unknown and possibly distant future when Messiah shall reappear, and will be burning with a pale, faint light. The bulk of mankind will be given up to a sensuality which the higher culture then generally reached will have been utterly powerless to check or even to modify.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 17:26-30

The unlearnt lesson. Man differs from the brute creation in that he learns and profits by experience—he advances. He passes through stage after stage toward the perfection of his life upon the earth. He is the hunter at one period, then the shepherd, then the agriculturist. From the lowest barbarism he reaches, in time, the most refined civilization. But he is very slow indeed to learn, if he does learn at all, moral and spiritual truths. The excellency of thrift, of temperance, of purity,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 17:26-27

See the notes at Matthew 24:37-39. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 17:28-30

They did eat ... - They were busy in the affairs of this life, as if nothing were about to happen.The same day ... - See Genesis 19:23-25. “It rained.” The word here used “might” have been rendered “he” rained. In Genesis it is said that the “Lord” did it.Fire and brimstone - God destroyed Sodom on account of its great wickedness. He took vengeance on it for its sins; and the example of Sodom is set before people to deter them from committing great transgressions, and as a “full proof” that God... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Luke 17:26-30

Luke 17:26-30 . As it was in the days of Noe, &c. In the next place, he foretold the stupidity of the generation he should come to destroy, comparing it to that of the old world, about the time of the flood; who, being wholly unaffected with the admonitions which Noah gave them, while building the ark, and with the threatenings which he then denounced, went on as usual, following their ordinary occupations, and pursuing their pleasures, both lawful and unlawful, in great security. The... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Luke 17:20-37

106. Coming of the kingdom (Luke 17:20-37)The Pharisees were looking for visible signs so that they could work out when the Messiah’s kingdom would begin. Jesus told them that since he was the Messiah and was living among them, the Messiah’s kingdom had already begun (Luke 17:20-21; cf. Matthew 16:1-4).Turning to his disciples, Jesus added that one day he would be taken from them. In their longing for him to return they were not to be led astray by rumours and false prophecies. His coming would... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Luke 17:26

was = came to pass, as in Luke 17:11 , Luke 17:14 . the days of Noe . See Genesis 6:4-7 , Genesis 6:11-13 . App-117 . Noe = Noah. also in the days = in the days also. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Luke 17:27

they drank = they were drinking (and so the Imperfect tense throughout the verse). Note the Figure of speech Asyndeton in this verse ( App-6 ), to emphasize the crisis of the flood. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 17:20-37

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 17:20-37

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 17:26-28

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 17:26-30

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 17:26-27

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 17:28-30

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Luke 17:26-30

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Luke 17:20-37

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Luke 17:26

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Luke 17:27

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