Luke 17

¹He said to his disciples, “It is inevitable that traps which cause people to fall will come, but woe to the one through whom they come! ²It would be better for him if a heavy millstone were hung around his neck and he were hurled into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to fall. ³Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he changes his mind, forgive him. ⁴Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times he turns back to you saying, ‘I am changing my mind,’ you must forgive him.”

⁵The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our trust!” ⁶The Lord replied, “If you had trust as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would have obeyed you.

⁷Which of you, having a bondservant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline at the table’? ⁸Instead, will you not say to him, ‘Prepare something for me to eat, and dress yourself to serve me while I eat and drink; and after that, you may eat and drink’? ⁹Does he owe the bondservant any gratitude because he did what was commanded? ¹⁰So it is with you; when you have done everything you were commanded to do, say, ‘We are ordinary bondservants; we have only done what we were obligated to do.’”

¹¹While he was on the way to Jerusalem, he was passing through the borderlands between Samaria and Galilee. ¹²As he entered a certain village, ten men with leprosy met him. They stood at a distance ¹³and raised 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 were going, they were cleansed. ¹⁵One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice. ¹⁶He fell on his face at Jesus’s feet, giving him thanks—and he was a Samaritan. ¹⁷Jesus responded, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? ¹⁸Was no one found to return and give glory to God except this foreigner?” ¹⁹Then he said to him, “Get up and go; your trust has made you whole.”

²⁰When he was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The kingdom of God does not come with observable signs. ²¹Nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ For look, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”

²²Then he said to the disciples, “Days are coming when you will long to see even one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. ²³They will say to you, ‘Look there!’ or ‘Look, here!’ Do not go off or chase after them. ²⁴For just as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one horizon 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, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark—then the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸Likewise, just 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. ²⁹But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰It will be exactly like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

³¹On that day, the one who is on the roof with his belongings in the house must not go down to get them; likewise, the one in the field must not turn back. ³²Remember Lot’s wife! ³³Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will bring it to life. ³⁴I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. ³⁵There will be two women grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.”

³⁷They asked him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the corpse is, there also the vultures will be gathered.”