Luke 17

¹Luke 17:1. Jesus said to His disciples, “It is inevitable that stumbling blocks will come, but woe to the one through whom they come!²Luke 17:2. It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.³Luke 17:3. Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.⁴Luke 17:4. Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to say, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

⁵Luke 17:5. The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”⁶Luke 17:6. And the Lord answered, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.⁷Luke 17:7. Which of you whose servant comes in from plowing or shepherding in the field will say to him, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’?⁸Luke 17:8. Instead, won’t he tell him, ‘Prepare my meal and dress yourself to serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you may eat and drink’?⁹Luke 17:9. Does he thank the servant because he did what he was told?¹⁰Luke 17:10. So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”

¹¹Luke 17:11. While Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem, He was passing between Samaria and Galilee.¹²Luke 17:12. As He entered one of the villages, He was met by ten lepers. They stood at a distance¹³Luke 17:13. and raised their voices, shouting, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”¹⁴Luke 17:14. When Jesus saw them, He said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they were on their way, they were cleansed.¹⁵Luke 17:15. When one of them saw that he was healed, he came back, praising God in a loud voice.¹⁶Luke 17:16. He fell facedown at Jesus’ feet in thanksgiving to Him—and he was a Samaritan.¹⁷Luke 17:17. “Were not all ten cleansed?” Jesus asked. “Where then are the other nine?¹⁸Luke 17:18. Was no one found except this foreigner to return and give glory to God?”¹⁹Luke 17:19. Then Jesus said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well!”

²⁰Luke 17:20. When asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The kingdom of God will not come with observable signs.²¹Luke 17:21. Nor will people say, ‘Look, here it is,’ or ‘There it is.’ For you see, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”²²Luke 17:22. Then He said to the disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.²³Luke 17:23. People will tell you, ‘Look, there He is!’ or ‘Look, here He is!’ Do not go out or chase after them.²⁴Luke 17:24. For just as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so will be the Son of Man in His day.²⁵Luke 17:25. But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.²⁶Luke 17:26. Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:²⁷Luke 17:27. People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.²⁸Luke 17:28. It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.²⁹Luke 17:29. But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.³⁰Luke 17:30. It will be just like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.³¹Luke 17:31. On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.³²Luke 17:32. Remember Lot’s wife!³³Luke 17:33. Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.³⁴Luke 17:34. I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed: one will be taken and the other left.³⁵Luke 17:35. Two women will be grinding grain together: one will be taken and the other left.”³⁷Luke 17:37. “Where, Lord?” they asked. Jesus answered, “Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.”