Luke 17 — TNTC

Don't offend, forgive

17Verse 1Then He said to the disciples: “Things that cause people to fall are bound to come, but woe to him through whom they do come!^{Verse 2}It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to fall.^{+Verse 3}Watch out for yourselves: if your brother sins against you,⁺rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.^{Verse 4}Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in that day returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”⁺

Faith like a mustard seed has

^{Verse 5}The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”^{Verse 6}So the Lord said: “If you had⁺faith like a mustard seed has,⁺you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

The thanks a slave gets

^{Verse 7}“And which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline to eat’?^{Verse 8}Will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare something for me to eat, and gird yourself and serve me until I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink’?^{Verse 9}Does he thank that slave because he did the things commanded? I guess not!^{+Verse 10}So likewise you, whenever you have done everything you were told to do, say, ‘We are unworthy slaves, because we have only done what we were supposed to.’ ”⁺

Jesus cleanses ten lepers

^{Verse 11}Now as He was traveling toward Jerusalem, He went along between Samaria and Galilee.^{Verse 12}And as He entered a certain village, ten men met Him—being lepers they stood at a distance.^{Verse 13}They called out, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”^{Verse 14}And paying attention He said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” It happened that as they went they were cleansed!^{Verse 15}Well one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, glorifying God with a loud voice;^{Verse 16}then he fell on his face at His feet, thanking Him—and he was a Samaritan!^{Verse 17}So Jesus reacted by saying: “Were not all ten cleansed? So where are the nine?^{Verse 18}None were found to return and give glory to God except this foreigner!”^{Verse 19}Then He said to him, “Get up and go; your faith has made you well.”⁺

The coming of the Kingdom

^{Verse 20}Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said: “The Kingdom of God does not come with observation;^{Verse 21}nor will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or ‘Look, there!’ because indeed the Kingdom of God is within you.”^{+Verse 22}Then He said to the disciples: “Days are coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of the Man, and you will not see it.^{+Verse 23}And they will say to you, ‘Look, here!’ or ‘Look, there!’ Do not go along or follow.^{Verse 24}Because just like the lightning that lights the whole sky when it flashes, so also will the Son of the Man be in His day.^{Verse 25}But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.^{Verse 26}Also, just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it also be in the days of the Son of the Man.^{Verse 27}They were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.^{Verse 28}Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building—^{Verse 29}but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and brimstone rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.^{Verse 30}Even so will it be in the day when the Son of the Man is revealed.^{Verse 31}“In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to get them; and likewise he who is in the field, let him not turn back.^{Verse 32}Remember Lot's wife!^{+Verse 33}Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever ‘wastes’ it will preserve it.^{Verse 34}I tell you: on that night there will be two men in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.^{Verse 35}Two women will be grinding together; one will be taken and the other left.”^{+Verse 37}They reacted by saying to Him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where there is a carcass, there will the vultures also be gathered.”⁺