Luke

¹Jesus told his disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to the one through whom they come! ²It would be better for such a person to have a millstone hung around the neck and be thrown into the sea, rather than to cause any of these little ones to stumble. ³Be careful! If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. ⁴If he sins against you seven times in the day, and comes back seven times, saying: ‘I repent!’ you must forgive him.”

Faith like mustard seed

⁵The apostles also said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”

⁶The Lord said, “If you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, ‘Be uprooted and transplanted into the sea,’ and it would obey you!

The attitude of a servant

⁷Now who is there among you, having a slave plowing or sheep-herding, that will say when that slave⁸⁵³ returns from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down at the table.’ ⁸Instead, will you not tell him, ‘Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me while I eat and drink. Afterwards, you may eat and drink’? ⁹Does the master⁸⁵⁴ thank that slave because he did the things that were commanded? I think not!^{855 10}So you also, when you have done all those things which you are commanded [to do], say, ‘We are unworthy slaves; we have [only] done our duty!’”

The healing of ten lepers

¹¹As Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem, it happened that he was passing between [the borders of] Samaria and Galilee. ¹²As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, and they stood at a distance. ¹³They lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”

¹⁴When Jesus saw them, he told them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And it happened that as they went, they were cleansed. ¹⁵One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice. ¹⁶He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks; and this man was a Samaritan. ¹⁷Jesus said, “Were not ten cleansed? But where are the nine [others]? ¹⁸Was no one found who came back to glorify God, except for this foreigner?” ¹⁹Then Jesus said to him, “Get up and go your way. Your faith has healed⁸⁵⁶ you!”

The coming of the Kingdom—The coming of the Son of Man

²⁰Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, Jesus answered them, “The Kingdom of God does not come with observation. ²¹Neither will people say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, the Kingdom of God is within you.”⁸⁵⁷

²²Jesus told the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. ²³And people will tell you, ‘Look there, look here!’ Do not go away or follow [them], ²⁴for as the lightning that flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so also will the Son of Man be in his day. ²⁵But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. ²⁶As it happened in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. ²⁷People ate, drank, got married and were given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered into the ark; and the flood came, destroying them all. ²⁸Likewise, as it also happened in the days of Lot: people ate, drank, bought, sold, planted and built. ²⁹But in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky which destroyed them all. ³⁰It will be the same in the day that the Son of Man is revealed. ³¹In that day, whoever is on the housetop, [having] his goods in the house, should not go down to take them away! Likewise, whoever is in the field should not return. ³²Remember Lot’s wife! ³³Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it. ³⁴I tell you that in that night, there will be two people in one bed! One will be taken, and the other will be left. ³⁵There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken, and the other will be left.” ³⁶<Two will be in the field: one will be taken, and the other left.>⁸⁵⁸

³⁷In reply, the disciples asked him, “Where, Lord?”

He said to them, “Where the body is, there the eagles will also be assembled.”⁸⁵⁹

The parable of the persistent widow

853. Greek “he”
854. Greek “he”
855. “I think not” is omitted in some manuscripts (CT)
856. Or “saved you, made you well”
857. The translation “within you” is supported by the Greek authors and fathers, including Origen, Athanasius, Basil, Gregory of Nyssa, and Cyril of Alexandria. Other translations read “among you” or “in your midst” for contextual reasons, because Jesus is addressing the Pharisees.
858. This verse (from Matthew 24:40) is included in PT and TR but absent in CT and MT.
859. See notes for Matthew 24:28