Matthew 24:40 Cross References - ACV

⁴⁰ Then two men will be in the field, one is taken, and one is left.

¹² And when he was in distress, he besought LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. ¹³ And he prayed to him. And he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that LORD he was God. ¹⁴ Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. And he encompassed Ophel around with it, and raised it up to a very great height. And he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah. ¹⁵ And he took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city. ¹⁶ And he built up the altar of LORD, and offered on it sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve LORD, the God of Israel. ¹⁷ Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places, but only to LORD their God. ¹⁸ Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of LORD, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel. ¹⁹ Also his prayer, and how God was entreated by him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the history of Hozai. ²⁰ So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. And Amon his son reigned in his stead. ²¹ Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. ²² And he did that which was evil in the sight of LORD, as did Manasseh his father. And Amon sacrificed to all the graven images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them. ²³ And he did not humble himself before LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but this same Amon trespassed more and more. ²⁴ And his servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house.

³⁴ I say to you, in that night there will be two in one bed. The one man will be taken, and the other man will be left. ³⁵ Two will be grinding together. The one woman will be taken, and the other woman will be left. ³⁶ This verse is not in the majority of the Greek manuscripts. ³⁷ And having answered, they say to him, Where, Lord? And he said to them, Where the body is, there the vultures will be gathered together.

³⁹ And one of the malefactors who were hanged railed him, saying, If thou are the Christ, save thyself and us. ⁴⁰ But the other man having answered, rebuking him, saying, Thou fear not even God, since thou are in the same condemnation? ⁴¹ And we indeed justly, for we receive worthy of what we did, but this man did nothing amiss. ⁴² And he said to Jesus, Remember me, Lord, when thou come into thy kingdom. ⁴³ And Jesus said to him, Truly I say to thee, today thou will be with me in the paradise.

⁷ For who makes thee different? And what have thou that thou did not receive? And also if thou received it, why do thou boast as not having received it?

⁵ and he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, the eighth, a herald of righteousness, when he brought on a flood upon the world of the irreverent,

⁷ and he rescued righteous Lot, being distressed by the conduct of the lawless in their licentiousness ⁸ (for that righteous man dwelling among them day after day, in the sight and hearing of their lawless deeds, it anguished his righteous soul), ⁹ the Lord knows how to rescue the pious out of temptation, and to hold in reserve unrighteous men being cut off for a day of judgment.