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Luke 17

¹Jesus said to his disciples, "Things that make people fall into sin are bound to happen, but how terrible for the one who makes them happen!

²It would be better for him if a large millstone were tied around his neck and he were thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.

³So watch what you do! "If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.

⁴If he sins against you seven times in one day, and each time he comes to you saying, 'I repent,' you must forgive him."

⁵The apostles said to the Lord, "Make our faith greater."

⁶The Lord answered, "If you had faith as big as a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, 'Pull yourself up by the roots and plant yourself in the sea!' and it would obey you.

⁷"Suppose one of you has a servant who is plowing or looking after the sheep. When he comes in from the field, do you tell him to hurry along and eat his meal?

⁸Of course not! Instead, you say to him, 'Get my supper ready, then put on your apron and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may have your meal.'

⁹The servant does not deserve thanks for obeying orders, does he?

¹⁰It is the same with you; when you have done all you have been told to do, say, 'We are ordinary servants; we have only done our duty.' "

¹¹As Jesus made his way to Jerusalem, he went along the border between Samaria and Galilee.

¹²He was going into a village when he was met by ten men suffering from a dreaded skin disease. They stood at a distance

¹³and shouted, "Jesus! Master! Have pity on us!"

¹⁴Jesus saw them and said to them, "Go and let the priests examine you." On the way they were made clean.

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

¹⁶He threw himself to the ground at Jesus' feet and thanked him. The man was a Samaritan.

¹⁷Jesus spoke up, "There were ten who were healed; where are the other nine?

¹⁸Why is this foreigner the only one who came back to give thanks to God?"

¹⁹And Jesus said to him, "Get up and go; your faith has made you well."

²⁰Some Pharisees asked Jesus when the Kingdom of God would come. His answer was, "The Kingdom of God does not come in such a way as to be seen.

²¹No one will say, 'Look, here it is!' or, 'There it is!'; because the Kingdom of God is within you."

²²Then he said to the disciples, "The time will come when you will wish you could see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.

²³There will be those who will say to you, 'Look, over there!' or, 'Look, over here!' But don't go out looking for it.

²⁴As the lightning flashes across the sky and lights it up from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

²⁵But first he must suffer much and be rejected by the people of this day.

²⁶As it was in the time of Noah so shall it be in the days of the Son of Man.

²⁷Everybody kept on eating and drinking, and men and women married, up to the very day Noah went into the boat and the flood came and killed them all.

²⁸It will be as it was in the time of Lot. Everybody kept on eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.

²⁹On the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and killed them all.

³⁰That is how it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

³¹"On that day someone who is on the roof of a house must not go down into the house to get any belongings; in the same way anyone who is out in the field must not go back to the house.

³²Remember Lot's wife!

³³Those who try to save their own life will lose it; those who lose their life will save it.

³⁴On that night, I tell you, there will be two people sleeping in the same bed: one will be taken away, the other will be left behind.

³⁵Two women will be grinding meal together: one will be taken away, the other will be left behind."

³⁶OMITTED TEXT

³⁷The disciples asked him, "Where, Lord?" Jesus answered, "Wherever there is a dead body, the vultures will gather."