Luke 17
1 Jesus said to his disciples: “It is inevitable that there should be snares; yet alas for him who is answerable for them!
And he said to his disciples, It is necessary for causes of trouble to come about, but unhappy is he by whom they come.
2 It would be good for him if he had been flung into the sea with a mill-stone round his neck, rather than that he should prove a snare to even one of these lowly ones.
It would be well for him if a great stone was put round his neck and he was dropped into the sea, before he made trouble for any of these little ones.
3 Be on your guard! If your brother does wrong, reprove him; but if he repents, forgive him.
Give attention to yourselves: if your brother does wrong, say a sharp word to him; and if he has sorrow for his sin, let him have forgiveness.
4 Even if he wrongs you seven times a day, but turns to you every time and says ‘I am sorry,’ you must forgive him.”
And if he does you wrong seven times in a day, and seven times comes to you and says, I have regret for what I have done; let him have forgiveness.
5 “Give us more faith,” said the Apostles to the Master;
And the twelve said to the Lord, Make our faith greater.
6 but the Master said: “If your faith were only like a mustard-seed, you could say to this mulberry tree ‘Be up-rooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
And the Lord said, If your faith was only as great as a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this tree, Be rooted up and planted in the sea; and it would be done.
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 table,’
But which of you, having a servant who is ploughing or keeping sheep, will say to him, when he comes in from the field, Come now and be seated and have a meal,
8 Instead of saying ‘Prepare my dinner, and then make yourself ready and wait on me while I am eating and drinking, and after that you shall eat and drink yourself’?
Will he not say, Get a meal for me, and make yourself ready and see to my needs till I have had my food and drink; and after that you may have yours?
9 Does he feel grateful to his servant for doing what he is told?
Does he give praise to the servant because he did what was ordered?
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.’”
In the same way, when you have done all the things which are given you to do, say, There is no profit in us, for we have only done what we were ordered to do.
11 On the way to Jerusalem Jesus passed between Samaria and Galilee.
And it came about that when they were on the way to Jerusalem he went through Samaria and Galilee.
12 As he was entering a village, ten lepers met him.
And when he went into a certain small town he came across ten men who were lepers, and they, keeping themselves at a distance,
13 Standing still, some distance off, they called out loudly: “Jesus! Sir! pity us!”
Said, in loud voices, 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 when he saw them he said, Go, and let the priests see you. And, while they were going, they were made clean.
15 One of them, finding he was cured, came back, praising God loudly,
And one of them, when he saw that he was clean, turning back, gave praise to 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, falling down on his face at the feet of Jesus, he gave the credit to him; and he was a man of Samaria.
17 “Were not all the ten made clean? exclaimed Jesus. But the nine — where are they?
And Jesus said, Were there not ten men who were made clean? where are the nine?
18 Were there none to come back and praise God except this foreigner?
Have not any of them come back to give glory to God, but only this one from a strange land?
19 Get up,” he said to him, “and go on your way. Your faith has delivered you.”
And he said to him, Get up, and go on your way; 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 admits of observation,
And when the Pharisees put questions to him about when the kingdom of God would come, he gave them an answer and said, The kingdom of God will not come through observation:
21 nor will people say ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There it is!’; for the Kingdom of God is within you!
And men will not say, See, it is here! or, There! for the kingdom of God is among 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.
And he said to his disciples, The time will come when you will have a great desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, but 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 if they say to you, See, it is there! or, It is here! do not go away, or go after 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 in a thunderstorm the bright light is seen from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be when his time comes.
25 But first he must undergo much suffering, and he must be rejected by the present generation.
But first, he will have to undergo much and be put on one side 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.
And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the day 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.
They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction.
28 So, too, in the days of Lot. People were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;
In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and 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 when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.
30 It will be the same on the day on which the Son of Man reveals himself.
So will it be in the day of the revelation of the Son of man.
31 On that day, if a man is on his house-top and his goods in the house, he must not go down to get them; nor again must one who is on the farm turn back.
On that day, if anyone is on the roof of the house, and his goods are in the house, let him not go down to take them away; and let him who is in the field not go back to his house.
32 Remember Lot’s wife.
Keep in mind Lot's wife.
33 Whoever is eager to get the most out of his life will lose it; but whoever will lose it shall preserve it.
If anyone makes an attempt to keep his life, it will be taken from him, but if anyone gives up his life, he will keep it.
34 On that night, I tell you, of two men upon the same bed, one will be taken and the other left;
I say to you, In that night there will be two men sleeping in one bed, and one will be taken away and the other let go.
35 of two women grinding together, one will be taken and the other left.”
Two women will be crushing grain together; one will be taken away and the other let go.
37 “Where will it be, Master?” interposed the disciples. “Where there is a body,” said Jesus, “‘there will the vultures flock.’”
And they, answering him, said, Where, Lord? And he said to them, Where the body is, there will the eagles come together.
