| 1 | Jesus said to His disciples, 'It is inevitable that causes of stumbling should come; but alas for him through whom they come! |
| 2 | It would be well for him if, with a millstone round his neck, he were lying at the bottom of the sea, rather than that he should cause even one of these little ones to fall. |
| 3 | Be on your guard. 'If your brother acts wrongly, reprove him; and if he is sorry, forgive him; |
| 4 | and if seven times in a day he acts wrongly towards you, and seven times turns again to you and says, 'I am sorry,' you must forgive him.' |
| 5 | And the Apostles said to the Lord, 'Give us faith.' |
| 6 | 'If your faith,' replied the Lord, 'is like a mustard seed, you might command this black-mulberry-tree, 'Tear up your roots and plant yourself in the sea,' and instantly it would obey you. |
| 7 | But which of you who has a servant ploughing, or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the farm, 'Come at once and take your place at table,' |
| 8 | and will not rather say to him, 'Get my dinner ready, make yourself tidy, and wait upon me till I have finished my dinner, and then you shall have yours'? |
| 9 | Does he thank the servant for obeying his orders? |
| 10 | So you also, when you have obeyed all the orders given you, must say, ''There is no merit in our service: what we have done is only what we were in duty bound to do.'' |
| 11 | As they pursued their journey to Jerusalem, He passed through Samaria and Galilee. |
| 12 | And as He entered a certain village, ten men met Him who were lepers and stood at a distance. |
| 13 | In loud voices they cried out, 'Jesus, Rabbi, take pity on us.' |
| 14 | Perceiving this, He said to them, 'Go and show yourselves to the Priests.' And while on their way to do this they were made clean. |
| 15 | One of them, seeing that he was cured, came back, adoring and praising God in a loud voice, |
| 16 | and he threw himself at the feet of Jesus, thanking Him. He was a Samaritan. |
| 17 | 'Were not all ten made clean?' Jesus asked; 'but where are the nine? |
| 18 | Have none been found to come back and give glory to God except this foreigner?' |
| 19 | And He said to him, 'Rise and go: your faith has cured you.' |
| 20 | Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God was coming, He answered, 'The Kingdom of God does not so come that you can stealthily watch for it. |
| 21 | Nor will they say, 'See here!' or 'See there!' --for the Kingdom of God is within you.' |
| 22 | Then, turning to His disciples, He said, 'There will come a time when you will wish you could see a single one of the days of the Son of Man, but will not see one. |
| 23 | And they will say to you, 'See there!' 'See here!' Do not start off and go in pursuit. |
| 24 | For just as the lightning, when it flashes, shines from one part of the horizon to the opposite part, so will the Son of Man be on His day. |
| 25 | But first He must endure much suffering, and be rejected by the present generation. |
| 26 | 'And as it was in the time of Noah, so will it also be in the time of the Son of Man. |
| 27 | Men were eating and drinking, taking wives and giving wives, up to the very day on which Noah entered the Ark, and the Deluge came and destroyed them all. |
| 28 | The same was true in the time of Lot: they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building; |
| 29 | but on the day that Lot left Sodom, God rained fire and brimstone from the sky and destroyed them all. |
| 30 | Exactly so will it be on the day that the veil is lifted from the Son of Man. |
| 31 | 'On that day, if a man is on the roof and his property indoors, let him not go down to fetch it; and, in the same way, he who is in the field, let him not turn back. |
| 32 | Remember Lot's wife. |
| 33 | Any man who makes it his object to keep his own life safe, will lose it; but whoever loses his life will preserve it. |
| 34 | On that night, I tell you, there will be two men in one bed: one will be taken away and the other left behind. |
| 35 | There will be two women turning the mill together: one will be taken away and the other left behind.' |
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| 37 | 'Where, Master?' they inquired. 'Where the dead body is,' He replied, 'there also will the vultures flock together.' |