Who
Noah was “a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time” (Genesis 6:9), whom God saved from the Flood in the ark with his family, and with whom he made the covenant of the rainbow for every living creature (Genesis 9:8–17). Peter calls him “a preacher of righteousness” (2 Peter 2:5) and sees in the eight saved through water a figure of Baptism (1 Peter 3:20–21). The Fathers read the ark as the Church, outside which no one was saved from the waters (Cyprian, The Unity of the Church 6; Augustine, The City of God XV.26).
Key verses
- Genesis 5:29
He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which the LORD has cursed.”
- Genesis 5:32
Noah was five hundred years old, then Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- Genesis 6:9
This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
- Genesis 9:13
I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
- 1 Chronicles 1:4
Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- Sirach 44:17
Noah was found perfect and righteous. In the season of wrath, he kept the race alive. Therefore a remnant was left on the earth when the flood came.
- Luke 3:36
the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
- Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
- 1 Peter 3:20
who before were disobedient when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
- 2 Peter 2:5
and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly,
Where the Bible names him
Named 49 times in 11 books.
- ✓ In the deuterocanon, which the verse index does not cover: found in the text and checked by hand.
Verse index: TIPNR, STEPBible.org (Tyndale House), CC BY 4.0.
Family
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Comments on the verses that name him (8 of 69).
- Origen on Luke 3:23–38Catena Aurea on Luke
Having related our Lord’s baptism, he next enters upon the generation of the Lord, not bringing it down from the higher to the lower, but beginning with Christ, he carries it up to God Himself. Hence he says, And…
- Gregory of Nazianzus on Luke 3:23–38Catena Aurea on Luke
We must therefore consider who He was who was baptized, and by whom and when: seeing He was pure, baptized by John, and at a time when His miracles had begun, that we might thence derive the lesson of purifying…
- John Chrysostom on Luke 3:23–38Catena Aurea on Luke
Or, He waited accomplishing the whole law until that age which takes in every sin, that none might say that He abrogated the law because He was not able to fulfil it.
- A Greek expositor on Luke 3:23–38Catena Aurea on Luke
For this reason also He came at thirty years to be baptized, to shew that spiritual regeneration makes men perfect as far as regards their spiritual life.
- Bede on Luke 3:23–38Catena Aurea on Luke
The thrice ten years also which our Saviour had passed when He was baptized might intimate also the mystery of our baptism, because of the faith in the Trinity, and the obedience to the Decalogue.
- Gregory of Nazianzus on Luke 3:23–38 (2)Catena Aurea on Luke
Still must a child be baptized if necessity demands it. For it is better to be insensibly sanctified, than to pass from this life unsealed. But you will say, Christ is baptized at thirty years old, and He was God,…
- Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 3:23–38Catena Aurea on Luke
Although in truth Christ had no father according to the flesh, yet some fancied he had a father. Hence it follows, As was supposed the son of Joseph.
- Ambrose of Milan on Luke 3:23–38Catena Aurea on Luke
Rightly as was supposed, since in reality He was not, but was supposed to be so, because Mary who was espoused to Joseph was His mother. But we might doubt why the descent of Joseph is described rather than that of…