17:1  And he said unto the disciples, `It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, but wo `to him' through whom they come;

17:2  it is more profitable to him if a weighty millstone is put round about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea, than that he may cause one of these little ones to stumble.

17:3  `Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him,

17:4  and if seven times in the day he may sin against thee, and seven times in the day may turn back to thee, saying, I reform; thou shalt forgive him.'

17:5  And the apostles said to the Lord, `Add to us faith;'

17:6  and the Lord said, `If ye had faith as a grain of mustard, ye would have said to this sycamine, Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea, and it would have obeyed you.

17:7  `But, who is he of you -- having a servant ploughing or feeding -- who, to him having come in out of the field, will say, Having come near, recline at meat?

17:8  but will not `rather' say to him, Prepare what I may sup, and having girded thyself about, minister to me, till I eat and drink, and after these things thou shalt eat and drink?

17:9  Hath he favour to that servant because he did the things directed? I think not.

17:10  `So also ye, when ye may have done all the things directed you, say -- We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do -- we have done.'

17:11  And it came to pass, in his going on to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee,

17:12  and he entering into a certain village, there met him ten leprous men, who stood afar off,

17:13  and they lifted up the voice, saying, `Jesus, master, deal kindly with us;'

17:14  and having seen `them', he said to them, `Having gone on, shew yourselves to the priests;' and it came to pass, in their going, they were cleansed,

17:15  and one of them having seen that he was healed did turn back, with a loud voice glorifying God,

17:16  and he fell upon `his' face at his feet, giving thanks to him, and he was a Samaritan.

17:17  And Jesus answering said, `Were not the ten cleansed, and the nine -- where?

17:18  There were not found who did turn back to give glory to God, except this alien;'

17:19  and he said to him, `Having risen, be going on, thy faith hath saved thee.'

17:20  And having been questioned by the Pharisees, when the reign of God doth come, he answered them, and said, `The reign of God doth not come with observation;

17:21  nor shall they say, Lo, here; or lo, there; for lo, the reign of God is within you.'

17:22  And he said unto his disciples, `Days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and ye shall not behold `it';

17:23  and they shall say to you, Lo, here; or lo, there; ye may not go away, nor follow;

17:24  for as the lightning that is lightening out of the one `part' under heaven, to the other part under heaven doth shine, so shall be also the Son of Man in his day;

17:25  and first it behoveth him to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this generation.

17:26  `And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man;

17:27  they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all;

17:28  in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;

17:29  and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.

17:30  `According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed;

17:31  in that day, he who shall be on the house top, and his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and he in the field, in like manner, let him not turn backward;

17:32  remember the wife of Lot.

17:33  Whoever may seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever may lose it, shall preserve it.

17:34  `I say to you, In that night, there shall be two men on one couch, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;

17:35  two women shall be grinding at the same place together, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;

17:36  two men shall be in the field, the one shall be taken, and the other left.'

17:37  And they answering say to him, `Where, sir?' and he said to them, `Where the body `is', there will the eagles be gathered together.'