Matthew 24:39 Cross References - Moffatt

³⁹ and as they knew nothing till the deluge came and swept them all away; so will the arrival of the Son of man be.

¹³ This is why I speak to them in parables, because for all their seeing they do not see and for all their hearing they do not hear or understand. ¹⁴ In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled: You will hear and hear but never understand, you will see and see but never perceive. ¹⁵ For the heart of this people is obtuse, their ears are heavy of hearing, their eyes they have closed, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they understand with their heart and turn again, and I cure them.

³⁷ As were the days of Noah, so will the arrival of the Son of man be.

⁴⁴ and raze you and your children within you to the ground, leaving not one stone upon another within you — and all because you would not understand when God was visiting you."

²⁰ for anyone whose practices are corrupt loathes the light and will not come out into it, in case his actions are exposed,

⁴¹ Look, you disdainful folk, wonder at this and perish for in your days I do a deed, a deed you will never believe, not though one were to explain it to you."

²⁸ Yes, as they disdained to acknowledge God any longer, God has given them up to a reprobate instinct, for the perpetration of what is improper,

⁵ They wilfully ignore the fact that heavens existed long ago, and an earth which the word of God formed of water and by water.