Luke

¹ Jesus said to his disciples, “It is inevitable that there should be temptations but sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting!

² It would be better for them if they had been flung into the sea with a millstone around their neck, rather than that they should cause even one of these little ones to stumble.

³ Be on your guard! If your brother or sister does wrong, rebuke them; but if they repent, forgive them.

⁴ Even if they wrong you seven times a day, but turns to you every time and says ‘I am sorry,’ you must forgive them.”

⁵ “Give us more faith,” said the apostles to the Master;

⁶ but the Master said, “If your faith were only like a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

⁷ Which of you, if he had a servant ploughing, or tending the sheep, would say to him, when he came in from the fields, ‘Come at once and take your place at the table,’

⁸ Instead of saying ‘Prepare my dinner, and then make yourself ready and serve me while I am eating and drinking, and after that you will eat and drink yourself’?

⁹ Does he feel grateful to his servant for doing what he is told?

¹⁰ And so with you – when you have done all that you have been told, still say ‘We are but useless servants; we have done no more than we ought to have done.’”

¹¹ On the way to Jerusalem Jesus passed between Samaria and Galilee.

¹² As he was entering a village, ten lepers met him.

¹³ Standing still, some distance off, they called out loudly, “Jesus! Sir! Pity us!”

¹⁴ When Jesus saw them, he said, “Go and show yourselves to the priest.” And, as they were on their way, they were made clean.

¹⁵ One of them, finding he was cured, came back, praising God loudly,

¹⁶ and threw himself on his face at Jesus’ feet, thanking him for what he had done; and this man was a Samaritan.

¹⁷ “Were not all the ten made clean? exclaimed Jesus. But the nine – where are they?

¹⁸ Were there none to come back and praise God except this foreigner?

¹⁹ Get up,” he said to him, “and go on your way. Your faith has delivered you.”

²⁰ Being once asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was to come, Jesus answered, “The kingdom of God does not come in a way that can be seen,

²¹ nor will people say ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There it is!’; for the kingdom of God is within you!

²² The day will come,” he said to his disciples, “when you will long to see but one of the days of the Son of Man, and will not see it.

²³ People will say to you ‘There he is!’ Or ‘Here he is!’ Do not go and follow them.

²⁴ For, just as lightning will lighten and flare from one side of the heavens to the other, so will it be with the Son of Man.

²⁵ But first he must undergo much suffering, and he must be rejected by the present generation.

²⁶ As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be again in the days of the Son of Man.

²⁷ They were eating and drinking and marrying and being married, up to the very day on which Noah entered the ark, and then the flood came and destroyed them all.

²⁸ So, too, in the days of Lot. People were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

²⁹ but, on the very day on which Lot came out of Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the skies and destroyed them all.

³⁰ It will be the same on the day on which the Son of Man reveals himself.

³¹ On that day, if a person is on their house-top and their goods in the house, they must not go down to get them; nor again must one who is on the farm turn back.

³² Remember Lot’s wife.

³³ Whoever is eager to get the most out of their life will lose it; but whoever will lose it will preserve it.

³⁴ On that night, I tell you, of two people on the same bed, one will be taken and the other left;

³⁵ of two women grinding grain together, one will be taken and the other left.”

³⁷ “Where will it be, Master?” asked the disciples. “Where there is a body,” said Jesus, “there will the vultures flock.”