1 tn The active participle here refers to an action that is imminent.
2 tn See the note on 9:24a.
3 tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”
4 sn The allusion to Sodom and Gomorrah, the most wicked of OT cities from Gen 19:1-29, shows that to reject the current message is even more serious than the worst sins of the old era and will result in more severe punishment.
5 sn And destroyed them all. The coming of the Son of Man will be like the judgment on Sodom, one of the most immoral places of the OT (Gen 19:16-17; Deut 32:32-33; Isa 1:10).