Luke 17:34

Luke 17:34 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
• New International Version (NIV)I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.
• English Standard Version (ESV)I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken and the other left.
• New King James Version (NKJV)I tell you, in that night there will be two men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left.

Context of Luke 17:34

32Remember Lot’s wife. 33Whosoever shall seek to gain his life shall lose it: but whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. I say unto you, In that night there shall be two men on one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. 35There shall be two women grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.

Luke 17:34 word by word

Λέγω ὑμῖν· ταύτῃ τῇ νυκτὶ ἔσονται δύο ἐπὶ κλίνης μιᾶς· ὁ εἷς παραλημφθήσεται, καὶ ὁ ἕτερος ἀφεθήσεται.Read the interlinear

• sayλέγωlegō · to sayG3004
• nightνύξnux · nightG3571
• beεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• twoδύοduo · twoG1417
• menοὗτοςhoutos houtoi hautē hautai · this/he/she/itG3778
• oneεἷςheis · oneG1520
• bedκλίνηklinē · bedG2825
• takenπαραλαμβάνωparalambanō · to takeG3880
• otherἕτεροςheteros · otherG2087
• leftἀφίημιaphiēmi · to release: leaveG863

Cross-references for Luke 17:34

• Luke 13:3I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all in like manner perish.
• Isaiah 42:9Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.
• Matthew 24:25Behold, I have told you beforehand.
• Mark 13:23But take ye heed: behold, I have told you all things beforehand.
• Mark 14:29But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be offended, yet will not I.
• Matthew 24:40Then shall two men be in the field; one is taken, and one is left:
• Psalms 26:9Gather not my soul with sinners, Nor my life with men of blood;
• Psalms 28:3Draw me not away with the wicked, And with the workers of iniquity; That speak peace with their neighbors, But mischief is in their hearts.
• Jeremiah 45:5And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not; for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith Jehovah; but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.
• Ezekiel 9:4And Jehovah said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst thereof.
• Malachi 3:16Then they that feared Jehovah spake one with another; and Jehovah hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared Jehovah, and that thought upon his name.
• Romans 11:4But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have left for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:16For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first;
• 2 Peter 2:9the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;

Commentaries on Luke 17:34

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 34On the subject of these verses see Matthew 24:40, Matthew 24:41; (note). The 36th verse is, without doubt, an interpolation. It was probably borrowed from Matthew 24:40. The whole verse is wanting in - ABEGHKLQS, more than fifty others, the Coptic, Ethiopic, Gothic, Slavonic, and many of the fathers: Griesbach has left it out of the text. Well might our translators say in the margin, This 36th verse is wanting in most of the Greek copies. Griesbach thinks…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 34-36Verses 34-36 See the notes at Matthew 24:40-41.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-37Verses 20-37 The kingdom of God was among the Jews, or rather within some of them. It was a spiritual kingdom, set up in the heart by the power of Divine grace. Observe how it had been with sinners formerly, and in what state the judgments of God, which they had been warned of, found them. Here is shown what a dreadful surprise this destruction will be to the secure and sensual. Thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. When Christ came…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 34-35one will be taken and the other left: The comparisons to God's judgment in the great flood and against Sodom (17:26–29), and the reference to vultures and a dead body (17:37), suggest that this separation happens at the final judgment. This is when the wicked are taken away in judgment and the righteous are left (see Malachi 3:18; Matthew 25:32).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3434. two in one bed--the prepared and unprepared mingled in closest intercourse together in the ordinary walks and fellowships of life, when the moment of severance arrives. Awful truth! realized before the destruction of Jerusalem, when the Christians found themselves forced by their Lord's directions (Lu 21:21) at once and for ever away from their old associates; but most of all when the second coming of Christ shall burst upon a heedless world.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Luke 17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings