The Meaning of Luke 17:32 Explained

Luke 17:32

KJV: Remember Lot's wife.

YLT: remember the wife of Lot.

Darby: Remember the wife of Lot.

ASV: Remember Lot's wife.

What is the context of Luke 17:32?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Remember  Lot's  wife. 

What does Luke 17:32 Mean?

Context Summary

Luke 17:22-37 - "the Days Of The Son Of Man"
Clearly enough, our Lord foresaw the approaching dissolution of the Jewish state. There was no help for it, notwithstanding all that the Baptist and Christ Himself had done. Suddenly and inevitably its doom must befall, as the deluge in the old world and the overthrow of Sodom. The Roman eagles would gather round the devoted city and only instant flight would avail. The early Christian disciples were warned by these words, and escaped to Pella, before Titus struck the last blow.
Since then other catastrophes have befallen, and finally the day of doom will break upon the world-to all of which the Master's words have been and are appropriate. In one sense, the advent of Christ took place at the fall of Jerusalem, the scenes of which were probably a miniature of the travail through which the new heavens and the new earth will be born. Let us not seek our own, but the things that belong to the Kingdom; then all other things "will be added," Matthew 6:33. [source]

Chapter Summary: Luke 17

1  Jesus teaches to avoid occasions of offense;
3  and to forgive one another
5  The power of faith
6  How we are bound to God
11  Jesus heals ten lepers
22  Of the kingdom of God, and the coming of the Son of Man

Greek Commentary for Luke 17:32

Remember Lot‘s wife [μνημονευετε της γυναικος Λωτ]
Here only in the N.T. A pertinent illustration to warn against looking back with yearning after what has been left behind (Genesis 19:26). [source]

What do the individual words in Luke 17:32 mean?

Remember the wife of Lot
μνημονεύετε τῆς γυναικὸς Λώτ

μνημονεύετε  Remember 
Parse: Verb, Present Imperative Active, 2nd Person Plural
Root: μνημονεύω  
Sense: to be mindful of, to remember, to call to mind.
γυναικὸς  wife 
Parse: Noun, Genitive Feminine Singular
Root: γυνή  
Sense: a woman of any age, whether a virgin, or married, or a widow.
Λώτ  of  Lot 
Parse: Noun, Genitive Masculine Singular
Root: Λώτ  
Sense: the son of Haran and nephew to Abraham.