Warnings from Jesus
1He17:1–3 Mt 18:6–7; Mk 9:42; 1Co 11:19 said to his disciples, “Offenses will certainly come,17:1 Lit “It is impossible for offenses not to come but woe17:1 Lk 22:22 to the one through whom they come!17:1 Mt 13:41
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.17:2 1Co 8:9
3Be17:3–4 Mt 18:15,21–22 on your guard. If your brother sins,17:3 Other mss add against you rebuke17:3 Lv 19:17 him, and if he repents, forgive17:3 Mt 6:14 him.
4And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and comes back to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
Faith and Duty
5The17:5–6 Mt 17:19–20; Mk 9:28–29 apostles17:5 Lk 6:13 said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”17:5 Mk 9:24
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“Which one of you having a servant tending sheep or plowing will say to him when he comes in from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’?
8Instead, will he not tell him, ‘Prepare something for me to eat, get ready, and serve me while I eat and drink; later you can eat and drink’?17:8 Lk 12:35–37
Ten Men Healed
11While traveling to Jerusalem,17:11 Lk 9:51 he passed between17:11 Or through the middle of Samaria and Galilee.17:11 Jn 4:3–4
12As he entered a village, ten men with leprosy17:12 Gk lepros; a term for various skin diseases; see Lv 13–1417:12 Lv 13:45–46 met him. They stood at a distance
14When he saw them, he told them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.”17:14 Lv 13:2–14:32; Mt 8:4; Lk 5:14 And while they were going, they were cleansed.
17Then Jesus said, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine?
18Didn’t any return to give glory to God except this foreigner?”
The Coming of the Kingdom
20When he was17:20–21 Mt 24:23; Mk 13:21 asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come,17:20 Lk 19:11; Ac 1:6 he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming with something observable;
21no one will say,17:21 Lit they will not say ‘See here! ’ or ‘There! ’ For you see, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”17:21 Or within you
22Then he told the disciples, “The days are coming17:22 Dt 32:35; Is 2:12; Jr 7:32; Am 4:2; Lk 5:35; 19:43; 21:6; 23:29 when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you won’t see it.17:22 Am 5:18
23They will say to you,17:23–24 Mt 24:23,27; Mk 13:21 ‘See there! ’ or ‘See here! ’ Don’t follow or run after them.17:23 Lk 21:8
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“Just as it was in the days of Noah,
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Mt 24:37–38
so it will be in the days of the Son of Man:
27People went on eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage17:27 Lk 20:34–35 until the day Noah boarded the ark,17:27 Gn 6:14 and the flood came and destroyed them all.
28It will be the same as it was in the days of Lot:17:28 Gn 19:1–26 People went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building.
29But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed17:29 Gn 19:24–25 them all.
30It17:30–35 Mt 24:17,39–41; Mk 13:15 will be like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.17:30 Mt 16:27; 24:44; 1Co 1:7; 2Th 1:7; 1Pt 1:7; 4:13
31On that day, a man on the housetop, whose belongings are in the house, must not come down to get them. Likewise the man who is in the field must not turn back.
33Whoever tries to make his life secure17:33 Other mss read to save his life17:33 Or tries to retain his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.17:33 Mt 10:39; Jn 12:25
34I tell you, on that night17:34 Lk 1:78–79 two will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left.
35Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.”17:35 Some mss include v. 36: “Two will be in a field: One will be taken, and the other will be left.”
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