Luke 17:28 Meaning and Explanation
“Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;”
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What Does Luke 17:28 Mean?
Jesus adds a second witness from Genesis. The daily round of Sodom, as He sketches it, is commerce and construction — buying, selling, planting, building — the busy hum of a prosperous city on the morning of its last day.
Again the charge is absorption, not activity. Sodom's deeper sins are recorded elsewhere (Genesis 18:20; Ezekiel 16:49); here Jesus underlines how completely ordinary its final hours felt from the inside. Prosperity can be a heavy sleep, and whole cities dream it together. The word stands as a kindness to every busy generation: lift your eyes from the ledger and the scaffolding, and ask what hour it is with God.
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What does Luke 17:28 mean?
Likewise in the days of Lot, people ate, drank, bought, sold, planted, and built.