Luke 17
1 Then sayde he to ye disciples it can not be avoyded but that offences will come. Neverthelesse wo be to him thorow whom they come.
Jesus said to his disciples: “It is inevitable that there should be snares; yet alas for him who is answerable for them!
2 It were better for him that a mylstone were hanged aboute his necke and that he were cast into ye see then that he shuld offende one of this lytleons.
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.
3 Take hede to youre selves. If thy brother trespas agaynst the rebuke him:
Be on your guard! If your brother does wrong, reprove him; but if he repents, forgive him.
4 and yf he repent forgeve him. And though he sinne agest ye. vii. tymes in a daye and seve tymes in a daye tourne agayne to ye sayinge: it repenteth me forgeve him
Even if he wrongs you seven times a day, but turns to you every time and says ‘I am sorry,’ you must forgive him.”
5 And the apostles sayde vnto the Lorde: increase oure faith.
“Give us more faith,” said the Apostles to the Master;
6 And the Lorde sayde: yf ye had faith lyke a grayne of mustard sede and shuld saye vnto this sycamine tree plucke thy selfe vp by the rootes and plant thy selfe in the see: he should obey you.
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.
7 Who is it of you yf he had a servaute plowinge or fedinge catell that wolde saye vnto him when he were come from the felde Goo quickly and syt doune to meate:
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,’
8 and wolde not rather saye to him dresse wherwith I maye sup and gyrde vp thy selfe and serve me tyll I have eaten and dronken: and afterwarde eate thou and drinke thou?
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’?
9 Doeth he thanke that servaunt because he dyd that which was commaunded vnto him? I trowe not.
Does he feel grateful to his servant for doing what he is told?
10 Soo lyke wyse ye when ye have done all thoose thinges which are commaunded you: saye we are vnprofitable servautes. We have done: ye which was oure duetye to do.
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.’”
11 And it chaunsed as he went to Ierusalem that he passed thorow Samaria and Galile.
On the way to Jerusalem Jesus passed between Samaria and Galilee.
12 And as he entred into a certayne toune ther met him ten men yt were lepers. Which stode a farre of
As he was entering a village, ten lepers met him.
13 and put forth their voyces and sayde: Iesu master have mercy on vs.
Standing still, some distance off, they called out loudly: “Jesus! Sir! pity us!”
14 When he sawe the he sayde vnto them: Goo and shewe youre selves to the prestes. And it chaunsed as they went they were clensed.
When Jesus saw them, he said: “Go and show yourselves to the priest.” And, as they were on their way, they were made clean.
15 And one of them when he sawe that he was clensed turned backe agayne and with a loude voyce praysed God
One of them, finding he was cured, came back, praising God loudly,
16 and fell doune on his face at his fete and gave him thankes. And the same was a Samaritane.
and threw himself on his face at Jesus’ feet, thanking him for what he had done; and this man was a Samaritan.
17 And Iesus answered and sayde: are ther not ten clensed? But where are those nyne?
“Were not all the ten made clean? exclaimed Jesus. But the nine — where are they?
18 Ther are not founde that returned agane to geve God prayse save only this straunger.
Were there none to come back and praise God except this foreigner?
19 And he sayde vnto him: aryse and goo thy waye thy faith hath made the whoale.
Get up,” he said to him, “and go on your way. Your faith has delivered you.”
20 When he was demaunded of ye pharises when the kyngdome of God shuld come: he answered them and sayde: The kyngdome of God cometh not with waytinge for.
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,
21 Nether shall men saye: Loo here loo there. For beholde the kyngdome of God is with in you.
nor will people say ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There it is!’; for the Kingdom of God is within you!
22 And he sayde vnto the disciples: The dayes will come when ye shall desyre to se one daye of the sonne of man and ye shall not se it.
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.
23 And they shall saye to you: Se here Se there. Goo not after them nor folowe them
People will say to you ‘There he is! or ‘Here he is!’ Do not go and follow them.
24 for as the lyghtenynge that apereth out of the one parte of the heven and shyneth vnto the other parte of heven: Soo shall the sonne of man be in his dayes.
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.
25 But fyrst must he suffre many thinges and be refused of this nacion.
But first he must undergo much suffering, and he must be rejected by the present generation.
26 As it happened in ye tyme of Noe: So shall it be in the tyme of the sonne of man.
As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be again in the days of the Son of Man.
27 They ate they dranke they maryed wyves and were maryed even vnto yt same daye yt Noe went into ye arke: and ye floud cam and destroyed the all.
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.
28 Lykewyse also as it chaunsed in the dayes of Lot. They ate they dranke they bought they solde they planted they bilte.
So, too, in the days of Lot. People were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;
29 And even the same daye that Lot went out of Zodom it rayned fyre and brymstone from heven and destroyed them all.
but, on the very day on which Lot came out of Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from the skies and destroyed them all.
30 After these ensamples shall it be in the daye when the sonne of man shall appere.
It will be the same on the day on which the Son of Man reveals himself.
31 At that daye he that is on the housse toppe and his stuffe in the housse: let him not come doune to take it out. And lykewyse let not him that is in the feldes turne backe agayne to that he lefte behynde.
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.
32 Remember Lottes wyfe.
Remember Lot’s wife.
33 Whosoever will goo about to save his lyfe shall loose it: And whosoever shall loose his lyfe shall save it.
Whoever is eager to get the most out of his life will lose it; but whoever will lose it shall preserve it.
34 I tell you: In that nyght ther shalbe two in one beed the one shalbe receaved and the other shalbe forsaken.
On that night, I tell you, of two men upon the same bed, one will be taken and the other left;
35 Two shalbe also a grindynge to gedder: the one shalbe receaved and the other forsaken.
of two women grinding together, one will be taken and the other left.”
37 And they answered and sayde to him: wheare Lorde? And he sayd vnto the: whersoever ye body shalbe thyther will the egles resoorte.
“Where will it be, Master?” interposed the disciples. “Where there is a body,” said Jesus, “‘there will the vultures flock.’”
