Matthew 24:37-39

24:37 For just like the days of Noah ¹  were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be. 24:38 For in those days before the flood, people ²  were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark. 24:39 And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. ³  It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man. ⁴ 

Luke 17:26-30

17:26 Just ⁵  as it was ⁶  in the days of Noah, ⁷  so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man. 17:27 People ⁸  were eating, ⁹  they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then ¹⁰  the flood came and destroyed them all. ¹¹  17:28 Likewise, just as it was ¹²  in the days of Lot, people ¹³  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. ¹⁴  17:30 It will be the same on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

¹ sn Like the days of Noah, the time of the flood in Gen 6:5-8:22, the judgment will come as a surprise as people live their day to day lives.

² tn Grk “they,” but in an indefinite sense, “people.”

³ sn Like the flood that came and took them all away, the coming judgment associated with the Son of Man will condemn many.

⁴ tn Grk “So also will be the coming of the Son of Man.”

⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

⁵ tn Or “as it happened.”

⁶ sn Like the days of Noah, the time of the flood in Gen 6:5-8:22, the judgment will come as a surprise as people live their day to day lives.

⁵ tn Grk “They.” The plural in Greek is indefinite, referring to people in general.

⁶ tn These verbs (“eating… drinking… marrying… being given in marriage”) are all progressive imperfects, describing action in progress at that time.

⁷ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

⁸ sn Like that flood came and destroyed them all, the coming judgment associated with the Son of Man will condemn many.

⁶ tn Or “as it happened.”

⁷ tn Grk “they.” The plural in Greek is indefinite, referring to people in general.

⁷ 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).