The Concordant Literal New Testament

Luke’s Account

Chapter 17

¹ Now He said to His disciples, "Incredible is it for snares not to be coming. Moreover, woe to him through whom they are coming!
² An advantage were it to him if a millstone were lying about his neck and he were pitched into the sea, rather than that he should be snaring one of these little ones.
³ Take heed to yourselves. Yet if your brother should be sinning, rebuke him, and if he should ever indeed repent, forgive him.
⁴ And if he should ever be sinning against you seven times a day, and if he should ever be turning about seven times a day to you, saying 'I am repenting,' you shall be forgiving him."
⁵ And the apostles say to the Lord, "Add to us faith."
⁶ Yet the Lord said, "If you have faith as a mustard kernel, you would say to this black mulberry, 'Be uprooted and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.
⁷ "Now who of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, who, on entering from the field, will be declaring to him, 'Come by immediately, lean back at table'?
⁸ But will he not be declaring to him, 'Make something ready for me. I should be dining. And, being girded, serve me till I should be eating and drinking, and after this you shall be eating and drinking.'
⁹ "Has that slave no thanks, seeing that he does what is prescribed? I presume not!
¹⁰ Thus, you also, whenever you should be doing all these things that are prescribed you, be saying that 'Useless slaves are we. What we ought to do we have done.'"
¹¹ And it occurred at His going into Jerusalem, He also passed through the middle of Samaria and Galilee.
¹² And, at His entering into a certain village, ten men, lepers, meet Him, who stand ahead.
¹³ And they lift their voices, saying, "Jesus, Doctor, be merciful to us!"
¹⁴ And, perceiving it, He said to them, "Go, exhibit yourselves to the priests." And at their going away, it came to be that they are cleansed.
¹⁵ Now one of them, perceiving that he was healed, returns, glorifying God with a loud voice.
¹⁶ And he falls on his face at His feet, thanking Him. And he was a Samaritan.
¹⁷ Now, answering, Jesus said, "Are not the ten cleansed? Yet where are the nine?
¹⁸ Were none found returning to give glory to God except this foreigner?"
¹⁹ And He said to him, "Rise, go. Your faith has saved you."
²⁰ Now, being inquired of by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God is coming, He answered them and said, "The kingdom of God is not coming with scrutiny.
²¹ Neither shall they be declaring 'Lo! here!' or 'Lo! there!' for lo! the kingdom of God is inside of you."
²² Yet He said to His disciples, "Coming will be days when you will be yearning to perceive one of the days of the Son of Mankind, and you shall not see it.
²³ And they shall be declaring to you, 'Lo! there!' or 'Lo! here!' You may not come away, nor yet should you be pursuing.
²⁴ For even as the lightning, flashing out from here under heaven to there under heaven, is shining, thus will be the Son of Mankind in His day.
²⁵ Yet first He must be suffering many things and be rejected by this generation.
²⁶ "And according as it occurred in the days of Noah, thus will it be in the days of the Son of Mankind also.
²⁷ They ate, they drank, they married, they took out in marriage, until the day on which Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came and destroys them all.
²⁸ "Likewise, according as it occurred in the days of Lot, they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built.
²⁹ Yet on the day in which Lot came out from Sodom, fire and sulphur rains from heaven and destroys them all.
³⁰ In accord with these will it be on the day in which the Son of Mankind is unveiled.
³¹ "In that day, he who shall be on the housetop and his gear in his house, let him not be descending to pick it up. And let the one in the field likewise not turn back to that behind him.
³² Remember Lot's wife.
³³ Whosoever should be seeking to procure his soul will be destroying it, yet whoever should be destroying it will cause it to live.
³⁴ "I am saying to you, in this night there will be two on one couch; the one shall be taken along and the other shall be left.
³⁵ There will be two grinding at the same place; the one shall be taken along, yet the other shall be left."
³⁶ (no verse ³⁶)
³⁷ And answering, they are saying to Him, "Where, Lord?" Yet He said to them, "Wherever the body is, there the vultures also will be assembled."

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