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!
Jesus said to his disciples. "It is not possible but that occasions of stumbling should occur, but woe to him through whom they come!
2 It would be better for them if they had been flung into the sea with a millstone around their neck, rather than that they should cause even one of these little ones to stumble.
"It were well for him if a millstone were tied about his neck, and he were hurled into the sea, rather than he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.
3 Be on your guard! If your brother or sister does wrong, rebuke them; but if they repent, forgive them.
"Be on you guard! "If your brother sins, 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.”
"And if he sins against you seven times a day, and seven times a day turns to you saying ‘I repent,’ you shall 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.
"If your faith," answered Jesus, "were like a grain of mustard-seed, you would say to this tree, ‘Tear yourself up 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,’
"But who of you who has a slave plowing or keeping sheep, will say to him, when he is come in from the field, ‘Come at once, sit down to dinner,’
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’?
"and will not rather tell him, ‘Get ready something for me to eat, and gird yourself to wait on me until I have eaten and drunken. Then you shall eat and drink.’
9 Does he feel grateful to his servant for doing what he is told?
"Does he think the slave because he did the things that were commanded?
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.’”
"Even so, you also, after you have done all the things that are commanded you, should say, ‘We are but slaves, we have only done what it was our duty to do.’"
11 On the way to Jerusalem Jesus passed between Samaria and Galilee.
Now it happened that as he went his way to Jerusalem, he passed between Samaria and Galilee.
12 As he was entering a village, ten lepers met him.
And as he was going certain village ten lepers met him.
13 Standing still, some distance off, they called out loudly, “Jesus! Sir! Pity us!”
They stood at a distance and lifted up their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master, take pity 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.
Perceiving this he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priest." And as they went they were made clean.
15 One of them, finding he was cured, came back, praising God loudly,
Now one of them, as he saw that he was cured, came back, glorifying God in 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.
and he fell on his face at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. He was a Samaritan.
17 “Were not all the ten made clean? exclaimed Jesus. But the nine – where are they?
"Were there not ten cleansed?" asked Jesus, "but where are the nine?
18 Were there none to come back and praise God except this foreigner?
"Are there none 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.”
And he said unto him, "Rise and go, your faith has healed you."
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,
The Pharisees asked him when the kingdom of God was coming. He answered. "The kingdom of God does not come so that you can catch sight of it,
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 it is!’ or ‘See there!’ - for the kingdom of God is now in your midst."
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 turning to his disciples. "The days will come when you shall long to see one of the days of the Son of man, you shall not see it.
23 People will say to you ‘There he is!’ Or ‘Here he is!’ Do not go and follow them.
"And they shall say to you, ‘Lo there! Lo there!’ But do not go away or follow them.
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.
"For as the lightning when it lightens out of the one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so shall the Son of 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 buy his generation.
26 As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be again in the days of the Son of Man.
"And this was in the time of Noah, so will it be in the time of the Son of 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.
"Men were eating and drinking; they were marrying and being married, until the day that Noah entered into 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;
"The same was true in the time of Lot; they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building;
29 but, on the very day on which Lot came out of Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the skies and destroyed them all.
"but on the day that Lot left Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
30 It will be the same on the day on which the Son of Man reveals himself.
"In the same manner it shall be in the day that the Son of man shall be 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.
"On that day, if a man is on the housetop and his goods inside, let him not go down to take them away; nor should a man in the field 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 keep his life shall lose it; but whoever loses it shall 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 that in one night there shall be two men in one bed; one shall be taken and the other left.
35 of two women grinding grain together, one will be taken and the other left.”
"There shall be two women grinding together; the one shall be taken and the other left."
(wanting in the most ancient manuscripts)
37 “Where will it be, Master?” asked the disciples. “Where there is a body,” said Jesus, “there will the vultures flock.”
"Where, Master?" they asked him. "Where the dead body is," he answered, "there will the vultures be gathered together."
