Luke 17
1 Jesus said to his disciples, ‘It is inevitable that there should be temptations but sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting!
Then He said to the disciples: “Things that cause people to fall are bound to come, but woe to him through whom they do come!
2 It would be better for them if they had been flung into the sea with a millstone round their neck, rather than that they should cause even one of these little ones to stumble.
It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to fall.
3 Be on your guard! If your brother or sister does wrong, rebuke them; but if they repent, forgive them.
Watch out for yourselves: if your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.
4 Even if they wrong you seven times a day, but turns to you every time and says “I am sorry,” you must forgive them.’
Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in that day returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
5 ‘Give us more faith,’ said the apostles to the Master;
The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”
6 but the Master said, ‘If your faith were only like a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree “Be uprooted and planted in the sea,” and it would obey you.
So the Lord said: “If you had faith like a mustard seed has, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
7 Which of you, if he had a servant ploughing, or tending the sheep, would say to him, when he came in from the fields, “Come at once and take your place at the table,”
“And which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline to eat’?
8 Instead of saying “Prepare my dinner, and then make yourself ready and serve me while I am eating and drinking, and after that you will eat and drink yourself”?
Will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare something for me to eat, and gird yourself and serve me until I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink’?
9 Does he feel grateful to his servant for doing what he is told?
Does he thank that slave because he did the things commanded? I guess not!
10 And so with you – when you have done all that you have been told, still say “We are but useless servants; we have done no more than we ought to have done.”’
So likewise you, whenever you have done everything you were told to do, say, ‘We are unworthy slaves, because we have only done what we were supposed to.’”
11 On the way to Jerusalem Jesus passed between Samaria and Galilee.
Now as He was traveling toward Jerusalem, He went along between Samaria and Galilee.
12 As he was entering a village, ten lepers met him.
And as He entered a certain village, ten men met Him—being lepers they stood at a distance.
13 Standing still, some distance off, they called out loudly, ‘Jesus! Sir! Pity us!’
They called out, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”
14 When Jesus saw them, he said, ‘Go and show yourselves to the priest.’ And, as they were on their way, they were made clean.
And paying attention He said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” It happened that as they went they were cleansed!
15 One of them, finding he was cured, came back, praising God loudly,
Well one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, glorifying God with a loud voice;
16 and threw himself on his face at Jesus’ feet, thanking him for what he had done; and this man was a Samaritan.
then he fell on his face at His feet, thanking Him—and he was a Samaritan!
17 ‘Were not all the ten made clean? exclaimed Jesus. But the nine – where are they?
So Jesus reacted by saying: “Were not all ten cleansed? So where are the nine?
18 Were there none to come back and praise God except this foreigner?
None were found to return and give glory to God except this foreigner!”
19 Get up,’ he said to him, ‘and go on your way. Your faith has delivered you.’
Then He said to him, “Get up and go; your faith has made you well.”
20 Being once asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was to come, Jesus answered, ‘The kingdom of God does not come in a way that can be seen,
Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said: “The Kingdom of God does not come with observation;
21 nor will people say “Look, here it is!” or “There it is!”; for the kingdom of God is within you!
nor will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or ‘Look, there!’ because indeed the Kingdom of God is within you.”
22 The day will come,’ he said to his disciples, ‘when you will long to see but one of the days of the Son of Man, and will not see it.
Then He said to the disciples: “Days are coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of the Man, and you will not see it.
23 People will say to you “There he is!” Or “Here he is!” Do not go and follow them.
And they will say to you, ‘Look, here!’ or ‘Look, there!’ Do not go along or follow.
24 For, just as lightning will lighten and flare from one side of the heavens to the other, so will it be with the Son of Man.
Because just like the lightning that lights the whole sky when it flashes, so also will the Son of the Man be in His day.
25 But first he must undergo much suffering, and he must be rejected by the present generation.
But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
26 As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be again in the days of the Son of Man.
Also, just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it also be in the days of the Son of the Man.
27 They were eating and drinking and marrying and being married, up to the very day on which Noah entered the ark, and then the flood came and destroyed them all.
They were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
28 So, too, in the days of Lot. People were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building—
29 but, on the very day on which Lot came out of Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from the skies and destroyed them all.
but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and brimstone rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
30 It will be the same on the day on which the Son of Man reveals himself.
Even so will it be in the day when the Son of the Man is revealed.
31 On that day, if a person is on their house-top and their goods in the house, they must not go down to get them; nor again must one who is on the farm turn back.
“In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to get them; and likewise he who is in the field, let him not turn back.
32 Remember Lot’s wife.
Remember Lot's wife!
33 Whoever is eager to get the most out of their life will lose it; but whoever will lose it will preserve it.
Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever ‘wastes’ it will preserve it.
34 On that night, I tell you, of two people on the same bed, one will be taken and the other left;
I tell you: on that night there will be two men in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.
35 of two women grinding grain together, one will be taken and the other left.’
Two women will be grinding together; one will be taken and the other left.”
37 ‘Where will it be, Master?’ asked the disciples. ‘Where there is a body,’ said Jesus, ‘there will the vultures flock.’
They reacted by saying to Him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where there is a carcass, there will the vultures also be gathered.”
