Luke Seventeen
And Jesus said to his disciples, It is
impossible but that offences should
come; but woe to him by whose hand they
come! It were better for him that an ass’ millstone
were hanged on his neck, and he
thrown into the sea, than cause one of these
little ones to stumble.
¶ Beware among yourselves. If your
brother should sin, rebuke him; and if he repents,
forgive him. And if he should offend you seven times
in a day, and seven times in a day turn to you
and say, I repent; forgive him.
¶ And the apostles said to our Lord, Increase
our faith. He said to them, If you have faith, even as
a grain of mustard seed, you could say to
this mulberry tree, Be uprooted and planted
in the sea; it would obey you.
¶ Now which of you has a servant who
ploughs or feeds sheep, and if he should
come from the field, would say to him, Enter
in and sit down? But he will rather say to him, Prepare
something that I may have my supper, and
gird yourself and serve me until I eat and
drink; and then you also can eat and drink.
Why, will that servant receive praise, because
he did what he was commanded to do?
I do not think so. Even you also, when you have done all
the things which are commanded you, say,
We are idle servants; we have only done what
was our duty to do.
¶ And it came to pass, while Jesus was
going to Jerusalem, he passed through Samaritan
territory which is towards Galilee. And when he drew near to enter a village,
he was met by ten lepers, and they stood
afar off; And they lifted their voices saying, O
Jesus, our Master, have mercy on us. And when he saw them he said to them,
Go, show yourselves to the priests; and while
they were going, they were cleansed. But one of them, when he saw that he
was cleansed, turned back, and with a loud
voice praised God. And he fell on his face at the feet of Jesus,
thanking him; and this one was a Samaritan. Jesus answered and said, Were there not
ten who were cleansed? where are the nine? Why did they separate themselves so as
not to come and give praise to God, except
this man who is of a strange people? And he said to him, Arise, go, your faith
has healed you.
¶ When some of the Pharisees asked Jesus,
when the kingdom of God would come, he
answered and said to them, The kingdom of
God does not come by observation. Neither will they say, Behold, it is here!
or, behold, it is there! for behold, the kingdom
of God is within you. And he said to his disciples, The days
will come when you will covet to see one of
the days of the Son of man, and you will not
see it. And if they should say to you, Behold,
he is here! and behold, he is there! do not
go. For just as the lightning flashes from the
sky, and all under the sky is lightened, such
will be the day of the Son of man.
25 But first he must suffer a great many
things, and be rejected by this generation. Just as it happened in the days of Noah,
such will it be in the days of the Son of man. For they were eating and drinking, and
marrying women, and giving in marriage,
until the day when Noah entered the ark, and
the flood came, and destroyed every man. And again, just as it happened in the days
of Lot; they were eating and drinking, and
buying and selling, and planting and building; But in the day when Lot went out of
Sodom, the Lord sent down a rain of fire and
sulphur from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Such will it be in the day when the Son
of man appears.
In that day, he who is on the roof and his
clothes in the house, will not come down to
take them; and he who is in the field will not
return back. Just remember Lot’s wife. He who desires to save his life shall lose
it; and he who loses his life shall save it. I say to you that in that very night two
will be in one bed; one will be taken away,
and the other left. And two women will be grinding together;
one will be taken away, and the other
left. Two will be in the field; one will be taken,
and the other left. They answered and said to him, Our Lord,
to what place? He said to them, Wherever
the corpse is, there will the eagles gather.
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