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 spoke to His disciples, It is impossible for offenses not to come: but woe unto him, through 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 is good for him if a millstone is hung around his neck, and he is cast into the sea, rather than that he may offend one of these little ones.
3 Be on your guard! If your brother does wrong, reprove him; but if he repents, forgive him.
Take heed to yourselves. If thy brother may sin, rebuke him; if he may repent, forgive him.
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.”
But if he may sin against thee seven times a day, and seven times turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.
5 “Give us more faith,” said the Apostles to the Master;
And 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 up-rooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
And the Lord said, If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed. you should say to this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up, and 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 table,’
But which one of you, having a servant plowing or serving a shepherd, who will say to him, having come in from the field, Coming hither sit down immediately?
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’?
But will he not say to him, Prepare what I may sup, and girding thyself, minister unto me, until I may eat and drink; and after these things you eat and drink?
9 Does he feel grateful to his servant for doing what he is told?
Whether does he thank the servant because he did the things which 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.’”
Likewise also, when you may do those things which are commanded you, say that, We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which we ought to do.
11 On the way to Jerusalem Jesus passed between Samaria and Galilee.
And it came to pass, while He was journeying to Jerusalem, and He was going through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.
12 As he was entering a village, ten lepers met him.
He coming into a certain village, ten lepers met Him, who stood afar off;
13 Standing still, some distance off, they called out loudly: “Jesus! Sir! pity us!”
and lifting up their voice, saying, Thou, 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 seeing, He said to them, Go and show yourselves to the priest. And it came to pass while they were going, they were cleansed:
15 One of them, finding he was cured, came back, praising God loudly,
and one of them, seeing that he was healed, returned, with a loud voice glorifying God,
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 upon his face at His feet, giving thanks to Him: and he was a Samaritan.
17 “Were not all the ten made clean? exclaimed Jesus. But the nine — where are they?
And Jesus responding said, Were not the ten cleansed?
18 Were there none to come back and praise God except this foreigner?
Where are the nine? And they were not found returning to give thanks to God, except this one foreigner.
19 Get up,” he said to him, “and go on your way. Your faith has delivered you.”
And He said to him, having arisen, go: thy faith hath saved thee.
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,
Then being interrogated by the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God is coming, He responded to them and said, The kingdom of God comes not with observation:
21 nor will people say ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There it is!’; for the Kingdom of God is within you!
neither will they say; Lo, here! or, there! for behold, 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 the disciples, The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and 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, Lo, here! lo, there! go not away, nor 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, flashing out of the one part under the heaven, gleams into the other part under heaven, so shall be the Son of man in His day.
25 But first he must undergo much suffering, and he must be rejected by the present generation.
But it behooves Him first to suffer many things and to be set at nought 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 it will be in the days 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 eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were getting married, until the day on which 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;
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were 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.
and on the day on which Lot went out from Sodom, fire and brimstone rained from heaven and destroyed them all.
30 It will be the same on the day on which the Son of Man reveals himself.
According to these things it will be in the day the Son of man is revealed.
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.
In that day, let not him who is on the house, and his goods in the house, come down to take them: and likewise let not him who is in the field turn back.
32 Remember Lot’s wife.
Remember 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.
Whosoever may seek to save his soul shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose it shall find 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 unto you, on that night two men shall be on one bed; the one shall be taken and the other left.
35 of two women grinding together, one will be taken and the other left.”
Two women shall be grinding at the same mill; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
37 “Where will it be, Master?” interposed the disciples. “Where there is a body,” said Jesus, “‘there will the vultures flock.’”
Responding they say to Him, Where, Lord? And He said to them, Where the body is, there the eagles will also be gathered together.
