Luke 17:24
 Luke 17:24 
New International Version (©2011)
For the Son of Man in his day will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other.

New Living Translation (©2007)
For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so it will be on the day when the Son of Man comes.

English Standard Version (©2001)
For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"For just like the lightning, when it flashes out of one part of the sky, shines to the other part of the sky, so will the Son of Man be in His day.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
For as the lightning flashes from horizon to horizon and lights up the sky, so the Son of Man will be in His day.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Because just as lightning flashes and shines from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his time.

NET Bible (©2006)
For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“For just as lightning flashes from the sky and lights up all beneath the sky, thus shall The Son of Man be in his day.”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The day of the Son of Man will be like lightning that flashes from one end of the sky to the other.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For as the lightning, that flashing out of the one part under heaven, shines unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.

American King James Version
For as the lightning, that lightens out of the one part under heaven, shines to the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.

American Standard Version
for as the lightning, when it lighteneth out of the one part under the heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall the Son of man be in his day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For as the lightening that lighteneth from under heaven, shineth unto the parts that are under heaven, so shall the Son of man be in his day.

Darby Bible Translation
For as the lightning shines which lightens from one end under heaven to the other end under heaven, thus shall the Son of man be in his day.

English Revised Version
for as the lightning, when it lighteneth out of the one part under the heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall the Son of man be in his day.

Webster's Bible Translation
For as the lightning that lighteneth from the one part under heaven, shineth to the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.

Weymouth New Testament
For just as the lightning, when it flashes, shines from one part of the horizon to the opposite part, so will the Son of Man be on His day.

World English Bible
for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part under the sky, shines to the other part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day.

Young's Literal Translation
for as the lightning that is lightening out of the one part under heaven, to the other part under heaven doth shine, so shall be also the Son of Man in his day;

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For as the lightning that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven,.... The Syriac version reads, "out of heaven", and the Arabic version, "in heaven"; which is the seat of lightning, and from whence it arises:

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Vincent's Word Studies

Lighteneth (ἀστράπτουσα)

Only here and Luke 24:4.


Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

As the lightning, that lighteneth - See this particularly explained, Matthew 24:27, Matthew 24:28 (note).


Geneva Study Bible

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.


People's New Testament

17:24 For as the lightning. See notes on Mt 24:16-18. The remainder of the chapter is a condensed and fragmentary report of a part of Matthew, chapter 24.


Wesley's Notes

17:24 So shall also the Son of man be - So swift, so wide, shall his appearing be: In his day - The last day.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

24. as lightning … so … the Son of man-that is it will be as manifest. The Lord speaks here of His coming and manifestation in a prophetically indefinite manner, and in these preparatory words blends into one the distinctive epochs [Stier]. When the whole polity of the Jews, civil and ecclesiastical alike, was broken up at once, and its continuance rendered impossible by the destruction of Jerusalem, it became as manifest to all as the lightning of heaven that the kingdom of God had ceased to exist in its old, and had entered on a new and perfectly different form. So it may be again, ere its final and greatest change at the personal coming of Christ, and of which the words in their highest sense are alone true.


Luke 17:24 Parallel Commentaries
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The Coming of the Kingdom
23And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them. 24For as the lightning, that lightens out of the one part under heaven, shines to the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day. 25But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation. …

Ezekiel 1:14 The creatures sped back and forth like flashes of lightning.
Matthew 5:15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.
Matthew 24:27 For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
1 Corinthians 1:8 He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.