It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.
We have here a discourse of Christ's concerning the kingdom of God, that is, the kingdom of the Messiah, which was now shortly to be set up, and of which there was great expectation. I. Here is the demand of the Pharisees concerning it, which occasioned this discourse.
Commenting on Luke 17:20-37
But the same day Lot went out of Sodom,.... Being plucked and brought from thence by the angels early in the morning; and a fine morning it was; the sun was risen, and shone out upon the earth, as Lot got into Zoar, Gen 19:15.
Verse 28-30. They did eat, &c. They were busy in the affairs of this life, as if nothing were about to happen. The same day, &c. . It rained. The word here used might have been rendered he rained. In Genesis it is said that the Lord did it. Fire and brimstone. God destroyed Sodom on account of its great wickedness.