Luke 17

₁And he said to his disciples, “Temptations to sinare sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come! ₂It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin. ₃Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, ₄and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

₅The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” ₆And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

₇“Will any one of you who has a servantplowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline at table’? ₈Will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare supper for me, and dress properly,and serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink’? ₉Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded? ₁₀So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants;we have only done what was our duty.’”

₁₁On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. ₁₂And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance ₁₃and lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.” ₁₄When he saw them he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went they were cleansed. ₁₅Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice; ₁₆and he fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan. ₁₇Then Jesus answered, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine? ₁₈Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?” ₁₉And he said to him, “Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well.”

₂₀Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming in ways that can be observed, ₂₁nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”

₂₂And he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. ₂₃And they will say to you, ‘Look, there!’ or ‘Look, here!’ Do not go out or follow them. ₂₄For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day. ₂₅But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. ₂₆Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. ₂₇They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. ₂₈Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, ₂₉but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all— ₃₀so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed. ₃₁On that day, let the one who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away, and likewise let the one who is in the field not turn back. ₃₂Remember Lot’s wife. ₃₃Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it. ₃₄I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken and the other left. ₃₅There will be two women grinding together. One will be taken and the other left.” ₃₇And they said to him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the corpseis, there the vultureswill gather.”