Luke 17

Anderson^{(i) 1} Then he said to his disciples: It is impossible that causes of offense should not come; but alas for him by whom they come! ² It would be better for him that a millstone were hung about his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin. ³ Take heed to yourselves; if your brother sin against you, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. ⁴ And if he sin against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to you and say, I repent, you shall forgive him. ⁵ And the apostles said to the Lord: Increase our faith. ⁶ And the Lord said: If you had faith like a grain of mustard, you might say to this sycamine-tree, Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea, and it should obey you. ⁷ Which of you that has a servant plowing, or feeding a flock, will say to him immediately, when he comes in from the field, Go and recline at table? ⁸ But will he not say to him, Make ready my supper, and gird yourself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunk; and afterward, you shall eat and drink? ⁹ Does he thank that servant, because he did what was commanded? I think not. ¹⁰ So also you, when you shall have done all things that you arc commanded to do, say, We are unprofitable servants; for we have done what was our duty to do. ¹¹ And it came to pass, as he was journeying to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. ¹² And as he entered a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, who stood at a distance. ¹³ And they lift ed up their voice, saying: Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. ¹⁴ And when he saw them, he said to them: Go, show your selves to the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were made clean. ¹⁵ Bat, one of them, seeing that he was restored to health, turned back, and, with a loud voice, glorified God. ¹⁶ And he fell on his face at his feet, and gave him thanks; and he was a Samaritan. ¹⁷ And Jesus answered and said: Were not the ten cleansed? but where are the nine? ¹⁸ Were there none found to return and give glory to God, but this one of another race? ¹⁹ And he said to him: Arise, and go; your faith has saved you. ²⁰ And being asked by the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said: The kingdom of God comes not so as to attract attention; ²¹ nor shall it be said, Lo here! or Lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is among you. ²² And he said to his disciples: The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and shall not see it. ²³ And they shall say to you, Lo here! or Lo there! go not after them, nor follow them. ²⁴ For as the lightning that flashes out of one part under heaven, shines to an other part under heaven, so shall the Son of man be in his day. ²⁵ But first he must suffer many things, and be rejected by this generation. ²⁶ And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. ²⁷ They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, till the day in which Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸ In like manner also, as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; ²⁹ but in the day in which Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. ³⁰ Even thus shall it be in the day in which the Son of man is revealed. ³¹ In that day, let not him that is on the house-top, and whose goods are in the house, come down to take them away. Likewise, he that is in the field, let him not turn back. ³² Remember Lot's wife. ³³ Whoever will seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever will lose his life, shall save it. ³⁴ I say to you, on that night two men shall be in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other left. ³⁵ Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. ³⁶ Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. ³⁷ And they answered and said to him. Where, Lord? And he said to them: Where the body is, there will the vultures be gathered.