Luke 17

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Temptations and Trespasses

¹Jesus said to His disciples, “It is inevitable that stumbling blocks will come, but woe to the one through whom they come!

¹And He said to His disciples, “It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, but woe to him through whom they come!

²It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.

²It is better for him if a millstone is put around his neck and he is thrown into the sea than that he might cause to stumble one of these little ones.

³Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

³Take heed to yourselves: If your brother should sin, rebuke him; and if he should repent, forgive him.

⁴Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to say, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

⁴And if he should sin against you seven times in the day, and seven times he should return to you, saying, ‘I repent,’ you will forgive him.”

The Power of Faith

⁵The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”

⁵And the apostles said to the Lord, “Add to our faith!”

⁶And the Lord answered, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.

⁶And the Lord said, “If you have faith as a grain of mustard, you would have said to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea,’ and it would have obeyed you.

⁷Which of you whose servant comes in from plowing or shepherding in the field will say to him, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’?

⁷And which of you having a servant plowing or shepherding, the one having come in out of the field, will say to him, ‘Having come, immediately recline’?

⁸Instead, won’t he tell him, ‘Prepare my meal and dress yourself to serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you may eat and drink’?

⁸But will he not say to him, ‘Prepare what I may eat, and having girded yourself about, serve me while I eat and drink; and after these things you will eat and drink’?

⁹Does he thank the servant because he did what he was told?

⁹Does he have favor to the servant because he did the things having been directed?

¹⁰So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”

¹⁰Thus also you, when you may have done all the things having been directed you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have done that which we were obligated to do.’”

The Ten Lepers

¹¹While Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem, He was passing between Samaria and Galilee.

¹¹And it came to pass, in His going to Jerusalem, that He was passing through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.

¹²As He entered one of the villages, He was met by ten lepers.^a They stood at a distance

¹²And on His entering into a certain village, ten leprous men met Him, who stood afar off.

¹³and raised their voices, shouting, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”

¹³And they lifted up their voice, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”

¹⁴When Jesus saw them, He said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.”^a And as they were on their way, they were cleansed.

¹⁴And having seen, He said to them, “Having gone, show yourselves to the priests.” And it came to pass, in their going, that they were cleansed.

¹⁵When one of them saw that he was healed, he came back, praising God in a loud voice.

¹⁵And one of them, having seen that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice,

¹⁶He fell facedown at Jesus’ feet in thanksgiving to Him—and he was a Samaritan.

¹⁶and he fell on his face at His feet, giving thanks to Him. And he was a Samaritan.

¹⁷“Were not all ten cleansed?” Jesus asked. “Where then are the other nine?

¹⁷And having answered, Jesus said, “Were not the ten cleansed? But where are the nine?

¹⁸Was no one found except this foreigner to return and give glory to God?”

¹⁸Was there found none having returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?”

¹⁹Then Jesus said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well!”^a

¹⁹And He said to him, “Having risen up, go; your faith has saved you!”

The Coming of the Kingdom

²⁰When asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The kingdom of God will not come with observable signs.

²⁰And having been questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God is coming, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation,

²¹Nor will people say, ‘Look, here it is,’ or ‘There it is.’ For you see, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”^a

²¹nor will they say, ‘Behold, here,’ or, ‘There.’ For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”

²²Then He said to the disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.

²²And He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

²³People will tell you, ‘Look, there He is!’ or ‘Look, here He is!’ Do not go out or chase after them.

²³And they will say to you, ‘Behold, there,’ or, ‘Behold, here.’ you should not go away, nor should you pursue.

²⁴For just as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so will be the Son of Man in His day.

²⁴For just as the lightning shines, flashing from the one end of the sky to the other end of the sky, so will be the Son of Man in His day.

²⁵But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

²⁵But first it is necessary for Him to suffer many things and to be rejected by this generation.

²⁶Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:

²⁶And just as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:

²⁷People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

²⁷They were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until that day Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

²⁸It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.

²⁸Likewise, just as it came to pass in the days of Lot: They were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building,

²⁹But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

²⁹and in that day Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from heaven and destroyed all.

³⁰It will be just like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

³⁰According to the same things it will be in that day the Son of Man is revealed.

³¹On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.

³¹In that day, the one who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and likewise the one in the field, let him not return to the things behind.

³²Remember Lot’s wife!

³²Remember the wife of Lot!

³³Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

³³Whoever may seek to keep his life will lose it; but whoever may lose it will preserve it.

³⁴I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed: one will be taken and the other left.

³⁴I say to you, in that night there will be two upon one bed: The 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.”^a

³⁵There will be two women grinding at the same place: The one will be taken, and the other will be left.”

³⁶—

³⁷“Where, Lord?” they asked.

Jesus answered, “Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.”

³⁷And answering, they say to Him, “Where, Lord?” And He said to them, “Where the body is, there also the vultures will be gathered together.”