Luke 17

¹Then he said to his disciples: "It is impossible for stumbling blocks not 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 thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to stumble. ³Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. ⁴And if he sins against you seven times in a day and seven times returns to you saying, 'I repent,' you will forgive him."

⁵And the apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!" ⁶But the Lord said, "If you had faith like a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

⁷"Which of you who has a slave plowing or tending sheep will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come right over and recline at the table'? ⁸Will he not rather say to him, 'Prepare something for me to eat, and dress yourself for service and wait on me while I eat and drink, and after that you may eat and drink'? ⁹Does he owe gratitude to the slave because he did what was commanded? ¹⁰So also you, when you have done everything commanded of you, say, 'We are slaves who have earned nothing extra; we have only done what we were obligated to do.'"

¹¹And it happened that while he was traveling to Jerusalem, he was passing through the border region between Samaria and Galilee. ¹²As he was entering a certain village, ten men with skin diseases met him, and they stood at a distance. ¹³They raised their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" ¹⁴When he saw them, he said, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And it happened that as they went, they were cleansed. ¹⁵But one 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 and said, "Were not ten cleansed? Where then are the nine? ¹⁸Was no one found to return and give glory to God except this foreigner?" ¹⁹And he said to him, "Rise and go your way. Your faith has saved you."

²⁰When he was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, he answered them and said, "The kingdom of God does not come through careful observation, ²¹nor will they say, 'Look, here it is!' or 'There!' For behold, 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 out, do not pursue them. ²⁴For just as lightning, when it flashes, lights up the sky from one end 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.

²⁶"And just as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man: ²⁷they were eating, drinking, marrying, being given in marriage, until the day 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, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building— ²⁹but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰It will be the same on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

³¹"On that day, whoever is on the housetop with his belongings in the house must not go down to retrieve them, and likewise the one in the field must not turn back to what is behind. ³²Remember Lot's wife. ³³Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will preserve it. 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 together—one will be taken and the other left."

³⁷And they responded and said to him, "Where, Lord?" And he said to them, "Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather."