Luke 10:18
New International Version
He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

New Living Translation
“Yes,” he told them, “I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning!

English Standard Version
And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

Berean Standard Bible
So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

Berean Literal Bible
And He said to them, "I beheld Satan having fallen as lightning out of heaven.

King James Bible
And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

New King James Version
And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

New American Standard Bible
And He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like lightning.

NASB 1995
And He said to them, “I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning.

NASB 1977
And He said to them, “I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning.

Legacy Standard Bible
And He said to them, “I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning.

Amplified Bible
He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like [a flash of] lightning.

Christian Standard Bible
He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like lightning.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like a lightning flash.

American Standard Version
And he said unto them, I beheld Satan fallen as lightning from heaven.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But he said to them, “I was beholding Satan himself who fell like lightning from Heaven.”

Contemporary English Version
Jesus told them: I saw Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to them: I saw Satan like lightening falling from heaven.

English Revised Version
And he said unto them, I beheld Satan fallen as lightning from heaven.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Jesus said to them, "I watched Satan fall from heaven like lightning.

Good News Translation
Jesus answered them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

International Standard Version
He told them, "I watched Satan falling from heaven like lightning.

Literal Standard Version
and He said to them, “I was beholding Satan having fallen as lightning from Heaven;

Majority Standard Bible
So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

New American Bible
Jesus said, “I have observed Satan fall like lightning from the sky.

NET Bible
So he said to them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

New Revised Standard Version
He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning.

New Heart English Bible
He said to them, "I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he said to them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

Weymouth New Testament
"I saw Satan fall like a lightning-flash out of Heaven," He replied.

World English Bible
He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.

Young's Literal Translation
and he said to them, 'I was beholding the Adversary, as lightning from the heaven having fallen;

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Context
The Joyful Return
17The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in Your name.” 18So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19Behold, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will harm you.…

Cross References
Isaiah 14:12
How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.

Matthew 4:10
"Away from Me, Satan!" Jesus declared. "For it is written: 'Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.'"

Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon was hurled down--that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.


Treasury of Scripture

And he said to them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

I beheld Satan.

John 12:31
Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.

John 16:11
Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

Hebrews 2:14
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

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Luke 10
1. Jesus sends out at once seventy disciples to work miracles, and to preach;
13. pronounces a woe against certain cities.
17. The seventy return with joy;
18. he shows them wherein to rejoice,
21. and thanks his Father for his grace;
23. magnifies the happy estate of his church;
25. teaches the lawyer how to attain eternal life,
30. and tells the parable of the good Samaritan;
38. reprimands Martha, and commends Mary her sister.














(18) I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.--The tense of the first Greek verb implies continuous action: I was beholding Satan as he fell . . . While they were working their Master had been following them in spirit, gazing, as it were, on each stage of their victorious conflict. Their triumph over the demons was the beginning and the earnest of a final conquest over Satan as "the prince of the demons." There may, possibly, be a reference to the belief then beginning to be current among the Jews as to the fall of Satan after his creation; but the primary meaning of our Lord's words is that he was now dethroned from his usurped dominion in the "high places" (comp. Ephesians 6:12), which symbolised the spiritual region of the soul and mind of man. The imagery reappears in a developed form in Revelation 12:9.

Verse 18. - And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. The Lord's words here were prophetic rather than descriptive of what had taken, or was then taking place. The seventy were telling him their feelings of joy at finding that his Name in their months enabled them to cast out evil spirits from the possessed. Their Master replied in an exalted and exultant strain - strange and rare sounds on the lips of the Man of sorrows - telling them how he had been looking - not on a few spirits of evil driven out of unhappy men, but on the king and chief of all evil falling from his sad eminence and throne of power like a flash of lightning. Jesus Christ saw, in the first success of these poor servants of his, an earnest of that wonderful and mighty victory which his followers, simply armed with the power of his Name, would shortly win over paganism. He saw, too, in the dim far future, many a contest with and victory over evil in its many forms. He looked on, we may well believe, to the final defeat which at length his servants, when they should have learned the true use and the resistless power of that glorious Name of his, should win over the restless enemy of the souls of men.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
So
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

He said
Εἶπεν (Eipen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2036: Answer, bid, bring word, command. A primary verb; to speak or say.

to them,
αὐτοῖς (autois)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

“I saw
Ἐθεώρουν (Etheōroun)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 2334: From a derivative of theaomai; to be a spectator of, i.e. Discern, (experience) or intensively (acknowledge).

Satan
Σατανᾶν (Satanan)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 4567: An adversary, Satan. Of Chaldee origin corresponding to ma'bad; the accuser, i.e. The devil.

fall
πεσόντα (pesonta)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 4098: A reduplicated and contracted form of peto; probably akin to petomai through the idea of alighting; to fall.

like
ὡς (hōs)
Adverb
Strong's 5613: Probably adverb of comparative from hos; which how, i.e. In that manner.

lightning
ἀστραπὴν (astrapēn)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 796: A flash of lightning, brightness, luster. From astrapto; lightning; by analogy, glare.

from
ἐκ (ek)
Preposition
Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

heaven.
οὐρανοῦ (ouranou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3772: Perhaps from the same as oros; the sky; by extension, heaven; by implication, happiness, power, eternity; specially, the Gospel.


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