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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Matthew 24:40

Then shall two be in the field ... - The calamity will come suddenly. There will be no escape for those whom it overtakes.

One shall be taken - The word “taken” may mean either to be taken away from the danger - that is, rescued, as Lot was Luke 17:28, or to be taken away “by death.” Probably the latter is the meaning.

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See also Matthew 24:40 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Matthew 24:40. _THEN SHALL TWO_ MEN - _TWO_ WOMEN - _ONE SHALL BE TAKEN,_ _AND THE OTHER LEFT._] The meaning seems to be, that so general should these calamities be, that no _two persons_, wher...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    12. THE OLIVET DISCOURSE; THE KING REVEALS THE FUTURE OF THE KINGDOM. Chapter s 24-25. CHAPTER 24 1. The Destruction of the Temple Foretold. (Matthew 24:1 .) 2. The Questions of the Disciples. (Mat...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    MATTHEW 24 F. THE ESCHATOLOGICAL DISCOURSE, AND THE PARABLES OF PAROUSIA (Mark 13*, Luke 21:5 *, Luke 17:23). Mt. follows Mk. fairly closely, but appends other eschatological sayings and illustrative...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    "Learn the lesson which comes from the fig tree. Whenever the branch has become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you too see these things, know that he is...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE VISION OF THINGS TO COME (Matthew 24:1-31) We have already seen that it is one of the great characteristics of Matthew that he gathers together in large blocks the teaching of Jesus about differe...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE ONE SHALL BE TAKEN, &C. 1 Thessalonians 4:15; 1 Thessalonians 4:16 refers to this, for it is the same _parousia._ SHALL. is. So in Matthew 24:41. TAKEN. taken to

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _shall be taken_ Properly, IS TAKEN or withdrawn. For this present for future of certainty see ch. Matthew 27:63....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Instances like these serve to bring out the reflection that the world's work will be going on then as now; there is also the thought of a real separation in this life beneath an external sameness....

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    THE COMING OF CHRIST; THE NEED OF WATCHFULNESS More briefly reported in Mark 13:32-37; Luke 21:34-36...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΠΑΡΑΛΑΜΒΆΝΕΤΑΙ, ‘is taken or withdrawn.’ For this present for future of certainty see ch. Matthew 27:63....

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    40, 41. Instances like these serve to bring out the reflection that the world’s work will be going on then as now; there is also the thought of a real separation in this life beneath an external samen...

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    Ver 36. "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. 37. But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38. For as in the day...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THIS GENERATION SHALL NOT PASS MATTHEW 24:34-44_ : Jesus said you can use leaves coming on a fig tree to know that summer is near. He used that illustration to let the people know that the desolation...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΈΣΟΝΤΑΝ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть, ΠΑΡΑΛΑΜΒΆΝΕΤΑΝ _praes. ind. pass. от_ ΠΑΡΑΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G3880) забирать с собой, уводить. _Praes._ изображает будущее как уже происходящее сейчас (Mey...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEN SHALL TWO BE IN THE FIELD, &C.— Providence will then make a distinction between such as are not at all distinguished now. Some shall be rescued from the destruction of Jerusalem, like Lot out of...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    III. CHRIST'S SECOND COMING (24:36-25:46) A. The Date Known but to God (24:36) (Parallel: Mark 13:32) 36 But of that day and hour knoweth no one, not even the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. Stories Illustrating Important Features of the Final End-Times 1. Illustration From Life Before the Flood: Business As Usual (24:37-42) Matthew 24:37 AND AS WERE THE DAYS OF NOAH, SO SHALL BE THE C...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. For the exposition of this wonderful Prophecy, which will be best appreh...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    29-31 Compare Mar_13:24-26; Luk_21:26-27. 29 See Rev_6:12-17; Isa_13:10; Joe_2:30-31; Joe_3:15; Amo_5:20. 29 Israel goes through the great affliction, and watches for the Son of Mankind, Who will sta...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND THE END OF THE WORLD FORETOLD 1. Jesus went out] RV 'Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way, and his disciples,' etc. THE BUILDINGS] The magnificent...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    GREAT PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND THE END OF THE WORLD (Mark 13:8; Luke 21:7). Many of the most serious difficulties of this great discourse disappear when it is realised that our Lo...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ONE SHALL BE TAKEN] viz. into glory, by the angels. THE OTHER LEFT] viz. for reprobation, or punishment. But if the fall of Jerusalem is meant, the 'taking' means the successful flight from Judæa and...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 24 JESUS TELLS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE *TEMPLE 24:1-2 V1 Then Jesus left the *Temple. He was walking away when his *disciples came u...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE ONE SHALL BE TAKEN. — Literally, the present tense being used to express the certainty of the future, _one is taken, and one is left._ The form of the expression is somewhat obscure, and leaves it...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 18 The Prophecy on the Mount - Matthew 24:1 & Matthew 25:1 WE have seen that though the Saviour's public ministry is now closed, He still has a private ministry to discharge-a ministry of cou...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    Matthew 24:40-41 graphically illustrate the suddenness of the _Parusia_. εἷς εἷς (Matthew 24:40) instead of εἷς ἑτέρος, o μία μία in Matthew 24:41. Of these idioms Herrmann in _Viger_ (p. 6) remarks:...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _Watch therefore_ (_cf._ Luke 17:26-30; Luke 17:34-36)....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    WATCH AND WORK Matthew 24:40-51 There are many comings of the Son of man before the final one to judgment. We may derive the full benefit of our Lord's words, even though we have arrived at no settl...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Passing from the city, the disciples drew their Master's attention to the stones of the Temple, and He told them that this glorious building would be demolished so that no single stone would be left u...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (10) Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. (10) Against those that persuade themselves that God will be merciful to all men, and do by this means give themselves...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Then of two men, who shall think of nothing less than of going to appear before God, one shall be taken to be placed among the number of the elect, and the other shall be left condemned to eternal fir...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    CHAPTER 20 COMING OF THE LORD Matthew 24; Matthew 25; Mark 13; Luke 21. It is now in the afternoon, on Wednesday, preceding the arrest of our Savior about midnight the ensuin

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    "But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. (38) For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until th...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    40._Two men shall then be in the field. _Before mentioning this, Luke inserts some sentences; the first of which is presented by Matthew as belonging to the destruction of Jerusalem, _Let not him who...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    We have already seen that the rejection of the testimony to the kingdom in grace, is the cause of the judgment that falls upon Jerusalem and its inhabitants. Now in chapter 24 we have the position of...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN SHALL TWO BE IN THE FIELD,.... About their proper business, of husbandry, ploughing, or sowing, or any other rural employment: THE ONE SHALL BE TAKEN; not by the preaching of the Gospel, into th...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Ver. 40. _The one shall be taken, the other left_] The Flood took all away in a manner; but at Christ's coming there shall...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _But as the days of Noe were_, &c. As then they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, till they were surprised by the flood, notwithstanding the frequent warnings and admonitions...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    TAKEN; and saved as a follower of Christ. LEFT; to perish through unbelief and rejection of him....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The time of Judgment Day:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THEN SHALL TWO BE IN THE FIELD; THE ONE SHALL BE TAKEN, AND THE OTHER LEFT....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    He leaves the temple, and in Matthew is not seen there again. What can it be now without its proper Inhabitant? But the disciples draw His attention to the ornate buildings that were really only the w...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    29-41 Christ foretells his second coming. It is usual for prophets to speak of things as near and just at hand, to express the greatness and certainty of them. Concerning Christ's second coming, it i...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 24:41"....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Matthew 24:40 Then G5119 two G1417 be G2071 (G5704) in G1722 field G68 one G1520 taken G3880 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HIS COMING, OF WHICH HE DOES NOT KNOW THE TIME, WILL BE SUDDEN AND UNEXPECTED (24:37-41). Just as in the days of Noah the coming of the flood was sudden and unexpected, so also will be the coming of...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    WORDS AFTER LEAVING THE TEMPLE ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE AND ABOUT HIS SECOND COMING (24:1-51). a Introduction in which Jesus declares that the Temple will be utterly destroyed (Matthew 24:...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “Then will two men be in the field; one is taken, and one is left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one is taken, and one is left.” And in the same way when the Son of Man comes two men will be...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Matthew 24:40. THEN SHALL TWO MEN BE IN THE FIELD. Until that time Christ's people are to be in companionship with the world. ONE IS TAKEN, _i.e.,_ gathered as one of the elect (Matthew 24:31). The o...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Destruction of the temple foretold. The course of the present age outlined; its culmination in the great tribulation and followed by the return of Christ in power and glory. Parable of the f...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Matthew 24:1. _The buildings of the temple._ Herod had gradually rebuilt the temple, taking down one part, and raising it anew, so that the worship was not interrupted. Hence it was still the second t...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    TWO MEN WILL BE WORKING. It will be a time when good and bad are separated. See the Parable of the Weeds (Matthew 13:24-30)....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Two women shall be grinding at the mill._ ROUTINE LIFE The text speaks of an experience which comes to all of us in our turn, as life gradually builds us round. At first, in our childhood, it is oth...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 24:1 The Delay, Return, and Judgment of the Messiah. These two chapters are often called the “Olivet Discourse” because Jesus “sat on the Mount of Olives” when he spoke these w...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 24:40 TAKEN... LEFT. The description may indicate that one is taken away to final judgment (see v. Matthew 24:39) while the other remai

  • The Gospels Compared

    Jesus tells about his return Matthew 24:36-51; Mark 13:32-37; Luke 21:34-36; Luke 12:39-46;...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Matthew 24:36_ The uncertainty of the end.—We ought to know the season, we cannot know the moment, of the “appearing” of Christ. So the Saviour teaches us here. “Of...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION MATTHEW 24:1 PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND OF THE TIMES OF THE END. ...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now Jesus went out (Matthew 24:1), Left the house desolate. He is rejected now. They've rejected Him, now He has rejected them. Leave the house desolate; you're not going to see me again until you ar...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 4:7; 2 Chronicles 33:12; 2 Peter 2:5; 2 Peter 2:7;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Shall be taken - left. Both verbs are in the present tense, which makes the saying more lively. One is taken and one if left. So Rev....

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    One is taken — Into God's immediate protection: and one is left — To share the common calamities. Our Lord speaks as having the whole transaction present before his eyes....

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