Matthew 24:39
Good News Translation
yet they did not realize what was happening until the flood came and swept them all away. That is how it will be when the Son of Man comes.

New Revised Standard Version
and they knew nothing until the flood came and swept them all away, so too will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Contemporary English Version
They didn't know anything was happening until the flood came and swept them all away. This is how it will be when the Son of Man appears.

New American Bible
They did not know until the flood came and carried them all away. So will it be [also] at the coming of the Son of Man.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they knew not till the flood came and took them all away: so also shall the coming of the Son of man be.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they knew not till the flood came and took them all away: so also shall the coming of the Son of man be.

Matthew 13:13-15 Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. . . .

Judges 20:34 And to march from the west side of the city. And other ten thousand men chosen out of all Israel, attacked the inhabitants of the city. And the battle grew hot against the children of Benjamin: and they understood not that present death threatened them on every side.

Proverbs 23:35 And thou shalt say: They have beaten me, but I was not sensible of pain: they drew me, and I felt not: when shall I awake and find wine again?

Proverbs 24:12 If thou say: I have not strength enough: he that seeth into the heart, he understandeth, and nothing deceiveth the keeper of thy soul, and he shall render to a man according to his works.

Proverbs 29:7 The just taketh notice of the cause of the poor: the wicked is void of knowledge.

Isaiah 42:25 And he hath poured out upon him the indignation of his fury, and a strong battle, and hath burnt him round about, and he knew not: and set him on fire, and he understood not.

Isaiah 44:18,19 They have not known, nor understood: for their eyes are covered that they may not see, and that they may not understand with their heart. . . .

Luke 19:44 And beat thee flat to the ground, and thy children who are in thee. And they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation.

John 3:20 For every one that doth evil hateth the light and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved.

Acts 13:41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you will not believe, if any man shall tell it you.

Romans 1:28 And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient.

2 Peter 3:5 For this they are wilfully ignorant of: That the heavens were before, and the earth out of water and through water, consisting by the word of God:

Context
Readiness at Any Hour
38For, as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, even till that day in which Noe entered into the ark: 39And they knew not till the flood came and took them all away: so also shall the coming of the Son of man be. 40Then two shall be in the field. One shall be taken and one shall be left.…
Cross References
Genesis 7:23
And he destroyed all the substance that was upon the earth, from man even to beast, and the creeping things and fowls of the air: and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noe only remained, and they that were with him in the ark.

Matthew 16:27
For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels: and then will he render to every man according to his works.

Matthew 24:3
And when he was sitting on mount Olivet, the disciples came to him privately, saying: Tell us when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the consummation of the world?

Matthew 24:30
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven. And then shall all tribes of the earth mourn: and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with much power and majesty.

Matthew 24:40
Then two shall be in the field. One shall be taken and one shall be left.

Matthew 24:38
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