Luke 17 · a question people ask
"One will be taken and the other will be left" (17:34). Who is taken?
Here are the words. "I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. One will be taken and the other will be left." (17:34). "There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken and the other will be left." (17:35). Luke doesn't say who is taken or by whom, or what becomes of the one left, and these notes don't either. Favor's Matthew 24 sets these words beside Matthew's in its go-deeper Beside Mark and Luke. Favor's Mark 13 asks whether Jesus speaks in Mark 13 of the temple's stones, of his coming, or of both, and gives three readings without choosing; Luke's 17:20-37 sits inside that question, with no reading of its own here. Favor's Mark 13 also sets out what Mark 13:32 says about who knows "that day or that hour". These notes don't ask either question again, name no date, event or nation, and apply these words to no one.
The verses
“I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. One will be taken and the other will be left. There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken and the other will be left.””
““But of that day or that hour no one knows—not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.”