Luke Chapter 17

Comments on Offences and Faith

            ¹ He said to his disciples,

“Inevitably offenses will come, but woe to the ones that bring them. ² It’d be better to have a big millstone put around their necks and be thrown into the sea than to make one of these little ones sin. ³ Be careful. If your friend sins, reprimand him; if he repents, forgive him. ⁴ If he sins against you seven times in a day and comes back seven times and says, ‘I’m sorry,’ forgive him.”

            ⁵ The apostles said to the Lord, “Give us stronger faith.”

            ⁶ He said,

“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’ll obey you.

Parable About an Unprofitable Servant

⁷ “Which one of you that has a servant plowing or tending sheep will say when he comes in, ‘Sit down and eat’? ⁸ Won’t you say^sg, ‘Change clothes, fix me something to eat, and wait on me till I’m done eating; then you can eat’? ⁹ You don’t thank him, do you, for doing what you’ve told him? ¹⁰ You^pl too, when you’ve done what God’s told you, say, ‘We’re not special; we’ve just done what we were supposed to.”                                                                               

Lk 17:1-10

Healing 10 Lepers

            ¹¹ On the way to Jerusalem, he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. ¹² As he came into one village, ten lepers met him. They stood a long way off ¹³ and shouted, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”

            ¹⁴ When he saw them, he said, “Go show yourselves to the priests.”

As they went, they were cleansed. ¹⁵ When one of them saw he was healed, he came back, loudly praising God, ¹⁶ and fell on his face to Jesus and thanked him. He was a Samaritan.  

            ¹⁷ Jesus responded, “Weren’t there ten cleansed? Where are the nine? ¹⁸ Was this foreigner the only one to come back and praise God?

¹⁹ “Get up and go; your faith has saved you.”

Lk 17:11-19

The Time of the Coming of the Kingdom

            ²⁰ The Pharisees asked when God’s kingdom was coming.

He answered, “It won’t come in a way you can watch. ²¹ People won’t say, ‘Here,’ or ‘There,’ because God’s kingdom is interpersonal.”^lit

²² He told his disciples, “The time’s coming when you’ll really want to see one of the days of the Son of Man and you won’t see it. ²³ People will tell you, ‘Look, there he is’; ‘look, here he is.’ Don’t go anywhere or follow them. ²⁴ As lightning flashes from one end of the sky to the other, that’s the way the Son of Man will come. ²⁵ First, he has to suffer many things and be rejected by people here now.

²⁶ “As in Noah’s day, it’ll be in the Son of Man’s day. ²⁷ They were eating and marrying till Noah went into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸ As in Lot’s day, they were eating, buying, selling, planting, building. ²⁹ The day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from the sky and destroyed them all. ³⁰ It’ll be the same way when the Son of Man comes back. ³¹ At that time, someone on the roof must not go down to get things out of the house. A person in the field must not go back for things at the house. ³² Remember Lot’s wife. ³³ Whoever tries to preserve their life will lose it, and whoever loses it will save it. ³⁴ That night two will be in one bed; one^mas will be taken and the other^mas left. ³⁵ Two women will be grinding at the same place; one will be taken and the other left. [ ³⁶ ]^ms”

³⁷ They answered^p, “Where?”

He said, “The vultures will gather where the carcass is.”          

Lk 17:20-37