Matthew 24:37
But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
KJV
ὥσπερ δὲ αἱ ἡμέραι τοῦ Νῶε, οὕτως ἔσται ἡ παρουσία τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου.
Greek NT
Sicut autem in diebus Noë, ita erit et adventus Filii hominis :
Vulgate
And as were the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of the Son of man.
ASV
And as in the days of Noe, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Douay-Rheims
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People
Noah
In the original Greek
10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Νῶε
noe
noun · 8×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
οὕτω
outo
adverb · 208×
παρουσία
parousia
noun · 24×
υἱός
uios
noun · 375×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἡμέρα
emera
noun · 388×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὥσπερ
osper
adverb · 36×
Intertextual echoes
This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.
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Gen 7:12 · echo"And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights."Genesis: the days of Noah — Jesus on the days before his coming
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: γὰρ | WH/Treg/NIV: γὰρ | RP: δὲ
- γὰρ — SBLGNT
- γὰρ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- δὲ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
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
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. We require much fervor and uproused zeal, for without these it is impossible to obtain the blessings promised to us. And to show this, Christ at one time says, Except a man take up his cross and follow Me, he is not worthy of Me Matthew 10:38; at another, I have come to send fire upon the earth, and what will I if it be already kindled? Luke 12:49; by both these desiring to …
And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark. The faith of Noah is here seen in his prompt obedience. The ark is a type of the Church, in which alone salvation is to be found. The flood is a dreadful testimony of the wrath of God against sin, and a warning to all ages that God is the judge of the world.
1. Relation of the Baptist to Elijah. The Theory of Transmigration Considered. The disciples asked Him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elijah must first come? Matthew 17:10 The disciples indeed who went up with Jesus remembered the traditions of the scribes concerning Elijah, that before the advent of Christ, Elijah would come and prepare for Him the souls of those who w…
Cross-references
- 1Pet 3:20 — Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
- 1Pet 3:20 — Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
- 1Thess 5:3 — For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
- 2Pet 2:5 — And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
- 2Pet 2:5 — And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
- 2Pet 3:6 — Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
- Gen 5:29 — And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
- Gen 6:1 — And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
- Gen 7:1 — And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
- Gen 7:6 — And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
- Gen 7:23 — And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and N
- Heb 11:7 — By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness whi
- Job 22:16 — Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
- Luke 17:26 — And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
- Luke 17:26 — And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
- Luke 17:30 — Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
- 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 24:39 — And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
- Matt 24:39 — And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.