Luke 17

¹And he said to his Disciples: It is impossible that scandals should not come: but woe to him by whom they come.

²It is more profitable for him, if a mill-stone be put about his neck, and he be cast into the sea, than that he scandalize one of these little ones.

³Look well to yourselves. If thy brother sin against thee, rebuke him: and if he do penance, forgive him.

⁴And if he sin against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day be converted unto thee, saying, It repenteth me, forgive him.

⁵And the Apostles said to our Lord: Increase faith in us.

⁶And our Lord said: If you had faith like to a mustard-seed, you might say to this mulberry tree, be thou rooted up, and be transplanted into the sea: and it would obey you.

⁷And which of you having a servant plowing or keeping cattle, that will say to him returning out of the field: Pass quickly, sit down:

⁸and saith not to him: Make ready supper, and gird thyself, and serve me whiles I eat and drink, and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?

⁹Doth he give that servant thanks, for doing the things which he commanded him?

¹⁰I trow not: So you also, when you shall have done all things that are commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which we ought to do.

¹¹And it came to pass, as he went unto Jerusalem, he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.

¹²And when he entered into a certain town, there met him ten men that were lepers, who stood a far off;

¹³and they lifted up their voice, saying: Jesus Master, have mercy on us.

¹⁴Whom as he saw, he said: Go, shew yourselves to the Priests. And it came to pass, as they went, they were made clean.

¹⁵And one of them as he saw that he was made clean, went back with a loud voice magnifying God,

¹⁶and he fell on his face before his feet, giving thanks: and this was a Samaritane.

¹⁷And Jesus answering said: Were not ten made clean? and where are the nine?

¹⁸There was not found that returned, and gave glory to God, but this stranger.

¹⁹And he said to him: Arise, go thy ways; because thy faith hath made thee safe.

²⁰And being asked of the Pharisees: when cometh the Kingdom of God? he answered them and said: The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation:

²¹neither shall they say: Lo here, or lo there. For lo the Kingdom of God is within you.

²²And he said to his Disciples: The days will come when you shall desire to see one day of the Son of man; and you shall not see.

²³And they will say to you: Lo here and lo there. Go not, neither do ye follow after.

²⁴For even as the lightning that lighteneth from under Heaven, unto those parts that are under Heaven, shineth: so shall the Son of man be in his day.

²⁵But first he must suffer many things and be rejected of this generation.

²⁶And as it came to pass in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

²⁷They did eat and drink, they did marry wives and were given to marriage even until the day that Noe entered into the ark: and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

²⁸Likewise as it came to pass in the days of Lot: They did eat and drink, bought and sold, planted, and builded:

²⁹and in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire & brimstone from Heaven, & destroyed them all:

³⁰according to these things it shall be in the day that the Son of man shall be revealed.

³¹In that hour he that shall be in the house-top, and his vessels in the house, let him not go down to take them up: & he that is in the field, in like manner let him not return back.

³²Be mindful of Lot's wife.

³³Whosoever seeketh to save his life, shall lose it: and Whosoever doth lose the same, shall quicken it.

³⁴Isay to you, in that night there shall be two in one bed: the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left:

³⁵two women shall be grinding together: the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. two in the field: the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.

³⁶They answering say to him: Where Lord?

³⁷Who said to them: Wheresoever the body shall be, thither will the eagles also be gathered together.