Matthew 24:40 Cross References - Goodspeed

⁴⁰ Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left.

³⁴ I tell you, there will be two men in the same bed that night; one will be taken and the other left. ³⁵ There will be two women grinding together; one will be taken and the other left!" ³⁶ OMITTED TEXT ³⁷ They said to him, "Where will this be, Master?" And he said to them, "Wherever there is a dead body the vultures will flock!"

³⁹ One of the criminals who were hanging there, abused him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us too!" ⁴⁰ But the other reproved him and said, "Have you no fear even of God when you are suffering the same penalty? ⁴¹ And we are suffering it justly, for we are only getting our deserts, but this man has done nothing wrong." ⁴² And he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom!" ⁴³ And he said to him, "I tell you, you will be in Paradise with me today!"

⁷ For who sees anything special in you? And what have you got that you have not been given? But if it has been given you, why do you boast as though it had not been?

⁵ and if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others, when he brought the flood upon the godless world;

⁷ and saved the upright Lot who was so distressed by the immoral conduct of unprincipled men— ⁸ for as long as that upright man lived among them, day after day his upright soul was tormented by what he saw and heard of their lawless actions— ⁹ then the Lord knows how to rescue God-fearing people from trial and to punish wrongdoers while they are being kept for the Day of Judgment,