Warnings from Jesus

# Chapter 17
1. He said to his disciples, *"Offenses will certainly come, but woe to the one through whom they come!*
2. *It 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.*
3. *Be on your guard. If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.*
4. *And 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


5. The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith."

6. *"If you have faith the size of a mustard seed," the Lord said, "you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it will obey you.*

7. *"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'?*
8. *Instead, 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'?*
9. *Does he thank that servant because he did what was commanded?*
10. *In the same way, when you have done all that you were commanded, you should say, 'We are unworthy  servants; we've only done our duty.'"*
Ten Men Healed


11. While traveling to Jerusalem, he passed between Samaria and Galilee.
12. As he entered a village, ten men with leprosy met him. They stood at a distance
13. and raised their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!"

14. When he saw them, he told them, *"Go and show yourselves to the priests."* And while they were going, they were cleansed.

15. But one of them, seeing that he was healed, returned and, with a loud voice, gave glory to God.
16. He fell facedown at his feet, thanking him. And he was a Samaritan.

17. Then Jesus said, *"Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine?*
18. *Didn't any return to give glory to God except this foreigner?"*
19. And he told him, *"Get up and go on your way. Your faith has saved you."*
The Coming of the Kingdom



20. When he was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, *"The kingdom of God is not coming with something observable;*
21. *no one will say, 'See here!' or 'There!' For you see, the kingdom of God is in your midst."*

22. Then he told the disciples, *"The days are coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you won't see it.*
23. *They will say to you, 'See there!' or 'See here!' Don't follow or run after them.*
24. *For as the lightning flashes from horizon to horizon and lights up the sky, so the Son of Man will be in his day.*
25. *But first it is necessary that he suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.*

26. *"Just as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man:*
27. *People went on eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage until the day Noah boarded the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.*
28. *It will be the same as it was in the days of Lot: People went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building.*
29. *But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all.*
30. *It will be like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.*
31. *On 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.*
32. *Remember Lot's wife!*
33. *Whoever tries to make his life secure will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.*
34. *I tell you, on that night two will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left.*
35. *Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left."*

37. "Where, Lord?"  they asked him.
He said to them, *"Where the corpse is, there also the vultures will be gathered."*




