Luke 17

Warnings from Jesus

17He ⁿsaid to His disciples, “Offenses ^owill certainly come, ^pbut woe ^qto the one they come ^rthrough! ²It would be better for him if a millstone ^swere hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to ^•stumble. ^t3Be ^uon your guard. If your brother sins, ^vrebuke ^whim, and if he repents, forgive ^xhim. ⁴And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and comes back to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

Faith and Duty

⁵The ^yapostles ^zsaid to the Lord, “Increase our faith.” ^a

⁶“If you have faith the size of ^ba mustard seed,” ^c the Lord said, “you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.

⁷“Which one of you having a ^•slave tending sheep or plowing will say to him when he comes in from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’? ⁸Instead, will he not tell him, ‘Prepare something for me to eat, get ready, ^dand serve me while I eat and drink; later you can eat and drink’? ^e9Does he thank that slave because he did what was commanded? ^f10In the same way, when you have done all that you were commanded, you should say, ‘We are good-for-nothing ^gslaves; we’ve only done our duty.’ ”

Ten Men Healed

¹¹While traveling to Jerusalem, ^hHe passed between ⁱSamaria and Galilee. ^j12As He entered a village, 10 men with serious skin diseases ^kmet Him. They stood at a distance ¹³and raised their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, ^lhave mercy on us!”

¹⁴When He saw them, He told them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” ^mAnd while they were going, they were healed. ⁿ

¹⁵But one of them, seeing that he was healed, returned and, with a loud voice, gave glory to God. ^o16He fell facedown ^pat His feet, thanking Him. And he was a Samaritan. ^q

¹⁷Then Jesus said, “Were not 10 cleansed? Where are the nine? ¹⁸Didn’t any return ^rto give glory to God except this foreigner?” ¹⁹And He told him, “Get up and go on your way. Your faith has made you well.” ^st

The Coming of the Kingdom

²⁰Being ^uasked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God will come, ^vHe answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming with something observable; ²¹no one will say, ^w‘Look here!’ or ‘There!’ For you see, the kingdom of God is among you.”

²²Then He told the disciples: “The days are coming ^xwhen you will long to see one of the days of the ^•Son of Man, but you won’t see it. ^y23They will say to you, ^z‘Look there!’ or ‘Look here!’ Don’t follow or run after them. ^a24For as the lightning flashes from horizon to horizon and lights up the sky, so the Son of Man will be in His day. ^b25But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. ^c

²⁶“Just as it was in the days of Noah, ^dso it will be in the days of the Son of Man: ²⁷People went on eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage ^euntil the day Noah boarded the ark, ^fand the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸It will be the same as it was in the days of Lot: ^gPeople went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building. ²⁹But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed ^hthem all. ³⁰It ⁱwill be like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed. ^j31On that day, a man on the housetop, whose belongings are in the house, must not come down to get them. Likewise the man who is in the field must not turn back. ³²Remember Lot’s wife! ^k33Whoever tries to make his ^•life secure ^lmwill lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. ⁿ³⁴I tell you, on that night ^otwo will be in one bed: One will be taken and the other will be left. ³⁵Two women will be grinding grain together: One will be taken and the other left. [³⁶Two will be in a field: One will be taken, and the other will be left.]” ^p

³⁷“Where, Lord?” ^qthey asked Him.

He said to them, “Where the corpse is, there also the vultures ^rwill be gathered.”