{10} And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

(10) The world will be taken by surprise with the sudden judgment of God, and therefore the faithful ought to continually watch.

People's New Testament

17:25-30 But first must he suffer many things, etc. See notes on Mt 16:21 24:37-39. Compare Col 3:3-4 2Th 1:7 1Pe 1:7.

Wesley's Notes

17:26 The days of the Son of man - Those which immediately follow that which is eminently styled his day. Mt 24:37.

Scofield Reference Notes

Margin Son of man

See Scofield Note: "Mt 8:20".

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

26-30. eat . married . planted-all the ordinary occupations and enjoyments of life. Though the antediluvian world and the cities of the plain were awfully wicked, it is not their wickedness, but their worldliness, their unbelief and indifference to the future, their unpreparedness, that is here held up as a warning. Note.-These recorded events of Old Testament history-denied or explained away nowadays by not a few-are referred to here as facts.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

17:20-37 The kingdom of God was among the Jews, or rather within some of them. It was a spiritual kingdom, set up in the heart by the power of Divine grace. Observe how it had been with sinners formerly, and in what state the judgments of God, which they had been warned of, found them. Here is shown what a dreadful surprise this destruction will be to the secure and sensual. Thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. When Christ came to destroy the Jewish nation by the Roman armies, that nation was found in such a state of false security as is here spoken of. In like manner, when Jesus Christ shall come to judge the world, sinners will be found altogether regardless; for in like manner the sinners of every age go on securely in their evil ways, and remember not their latter end. But wherever the wicked are, who are marked for eternal ruin, they shall be found by the judgments of God.