Matthew 24:27
For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
KJV
ὥσπερ γὰρ ἡ ἀστραπὴ ἐξέρχεται ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν καὶ φαίνεται ἕως δυσμῶν, οὕτως ἔσται ἡ παρουσία τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου.
Greek NT
Sicut enim fulgur exit ab oriente, et paret usque in occidentem : ita erit et adventus Filii hominis.
Vulgate
For as the lightning cometh forth from the east, and is seen even unto the west; so shall be the coming of the Son of man.
ASV
For as lightning cometh out of the east and appeareth even into the west: so shall also the cowling of the Son of man be.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
δυσμή
dusme
noun · 5×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
οὕτω
outo
adverb · 208×
παρουσία
parousia
noun · 24×
υἱός
uios
noun · 375×
φαίνω
phaino
verb · 31×
ἀνατολή
anatole
noun · 10×
ἀπό
apo
preposition · 640×
ἀστραπή
astrape
noun · 9×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἐξέρχομαι
exerchomai
verb · 221×
ἕως
eos
adverb · 145×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὥσπερ
osper
adverb · 36×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: ἔσται | WH/Treg/NIV: ἔσται | RP: + καὶ
- ἔσται — SBLGNT
- ἔσται — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + καὶ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Themes
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Homilies on Matthew · 2 passages
2. Since however they still spoke of the multitude merely, and the place, and the wilderness (for whence, it is said, should we have in a wilderness so many loaves, as to fill so great a multitude?); and not even so understood what He said, He proceeds to contribute His own part, and says unto them, How many loaves do you have? And they say, Seven, and a few little fishes. Matt…
2. But whom does He here mean by the elect? The believers that were shut up in the midst of them. For that Jews may not say that because of the gospel, and the worship of Christ, these ills took place, He shows, that so far from the believers being the cause, if it had not been for them, all had perished utterly. For if God had permitted the war to be protracted, not so much as…
It is not without reason or by chance that we worship towards the East. But seeing that we are composed of a visible and an invisible nature, that is to say, of a nature partly of spirit and partly of sense, we render also a twofold worship to the Creator; just as we sing both with our spirit and our bodily lips, and are baptized with both water and Spirit, and are united with …
The second coming of Christ includes the rapture of the saints, which is our blessed hope, followed by the visible return of Christ with His saints to reign on earth for one thousand years.
Cross-references
- 2Pet 1:16 — For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
- 2Pet 3:4 — And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
- Ezek 1:14 — And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
- Isa 30:30 — And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and te
- Jas 5:7 — Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter ra
- Jas 5:8 — Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
- Job 37:3 — He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
- Job 37:3 — He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
- Job 38:24 — By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?
- Luke 17:24 — For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
- Luke 17:24 — For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
- Luke 17:30 — Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
- Mal 3:2 — But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
- Mal 4:5 — Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
- Mal 4:6 — And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
- Matt 24:3 — And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
- Matt 24:44 — Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
- Zech 9:14 — And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
- Zech 14:5 — And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Ju