17:1  He said to His disciples, "Inevitably stumbling blocks come, but woe to him through whom they come!

17:2  "It would seem preferable for him if someone hung a millstone around his neck and threw him into the sea, than that he would cause one of these little ones to stumble.

17:3  "Stay on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

17:4  "And if he sins against you seven times a day, and returns to you seven times, saying, 'I repent,' forgive him."

17:5  The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"

17:6  And the Lord said, "If you had faith like a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, 'Uproot yourself and plant yourself in the sea'; and it would obey you.

17:7  "Which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down to eat'?

17:8  "But will he not say to him, 'Prepare something for me to eat, and properly clothe yourself and serve me while I eat and drink; and afterward you may eat and drink'?

17:9  "He does not thank the slave because he did the things which he commanded, does he?

17:10  "So you too, when you do all the things which I command you, say, 'We consider ourselves unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to have done.'"

17:11  While He went on the way to Jerusalem, He passed between Samaria and Galilee.

17:12  As He entered a village, ten leprous men who stood at a distance met Him;

17:13  and they raised their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!"

17:14  When He saw them, He said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went, they found themselves cleansed.

17:15  Now one of them, when he saw that he had become healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice,

17:16  and he fell on his face at His feet, giving thanks to Him. And he claimed Samaritan heritage.

17:17  Then Jesus answered and said, "Did I not cleanse ten? But the nine--where have they gone?

17:18  "Why did no one return to give glory to God, except this foreigner?"

17:19  And He said to him, "Stand up and go; your faith has made you well."

17:20  Now when the Pharisees questioned him as to when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, "The kingdom of God will not come with signs we can observe;

17:21  nor will they say, 'Look, here we see it!' or, 'There we find is!' For behold, the kingdom of God stands in your midst."

17:22  And He said to the disciples, "The days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

17:23  "They will say to you, 'Look there! Look here!' Do not go away, and do not run after them.

17:24  "For just like the lightning, when it flashes out of one part of the sky, shines to the other part of the sky, so will the Son of Man come in His day.

17:25  "But first He must suffer many things and receive rejection by this generation.

17:26  "And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will occur also in the days of the Son of Man:

17:27  they ate, they drank, they married, they gave in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

17:28  "It looked the same as happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

17:29  but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

17:30  "It will occur the same way on the day that the Son of Man reveals Himself.

17:31  "On that day, the one on the housetop and who left his goods in the house must not go down to take them out; and likewise the one in the field must not turn back.

17:32  "Remember Lot's wife.

17:33  "Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.

17:34  "I tell you, on that night there will lie two in one bed; and God will take one and will leave the other.

17:35  "Two women will grind at the same place; God will take one and leave the other.

17:36  ["Two men will work in the field; God will take one and leave the other."]

17:37  And answering they said to Him, "Where, Lord?" And He said to them, "Where the body lies, the vultures will gather."