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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Luke 17</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/luke/17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmc//luke/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/luke/">Luke</a> > Luke 17</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../luke/16.htm" title="Luke 16">◄</a> Luke 17 <a href="../luke/18.htm" title="Luke 18">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/luke/17.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/luke/17.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/luke/17.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/luke/17.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/luke/17.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/luke/17.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/luke/17.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Temptations and Trespasses<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/18.htm#7">Matthew 18:6–9</a>; <a href ="../mark/9.htm#42">Mark 9:42–48</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Jesus said to His disciples, <span class="red">“It is inevitable that stumbling blocks will come, but woe to the one through whom they come! <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.</span> <A name="4"></a><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to say, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.” <A name="6"></a><p class="hdg">The Power of Faith<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/17.htm#19">Matthew 17:19–20</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And the Lord answered, <span class="red">“If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.</span> <A name="8"></a><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Which of you whose servant comes in from plowing or shepherding in the field will say to him, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’? <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Instead, won’t he tell him, ‘Prepare my meal and dress yourself to serve me while I eat and drink; and afterward you may eat and drink’? <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Does he thank the servant because he did what he was told? <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <A name="12"></a><p class="hdg">The Ten Lepers<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_kings/5.htm">2 Kings 5:1–14</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>While Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem, He was passing between Samaria and Galilee. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>As He entered one of the villages, He was met by ten lepers.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> They stood at a distance <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and raised their voices, shouting, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>When Jesus saw them, He said, <span class="red">“Go, show yourselves to the priests.”</span><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> And as they were on their way, they were cleansed. <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>When one of them saw that he was healed, he came back, praising God in a loud voice. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He fell facedown at Jesus’ feet in thanksgiving to Him—and he was a Samaritan. <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Were not all ten cleansed?”</span> Jesus asked. <span class="red">“Where then are the other nine? <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Was no one found except this foreigner to return and give glory to God?”</span> <A name="20"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then Jesus said to him, <span class="red">“Rise and go; your faith has made you well!<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span>”</span> <A name="21"></a><p class="hdg">The Coming of the Kingdom<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../genesis/19.htm#24">Genesis 19:24–29</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>When asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, <span class="red">“The kingdom of God will not come with observable signs. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Nor will people say, ‘Look, here it is,’ or ‘There it is.’ For you see, the kingdom of God is in your midst.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span>”</span> <A name="23"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then He said to the disciples, <span class="red">“The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>People will tell you, ‘Look, there He is!’ or ‘Look, here He is!’ Do not go out or chase after them. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For just as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so will be the Son of Man in His day. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.</span> <A name="27"></a><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man: <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. <A name="29"></a><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. <A name="31"></a><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>It will be just like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Remember Lot’s wife! <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it. <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed: One will be taken and the other left. <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Two women will be grinding grain together: One will be taken and the other left.”<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> <A name="37"></a> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/17-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>“Where, Lord?” they asked. <p class="reg"> Jesus answered, <span class="red">“Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.”</span></p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> A <i>leper</i><span class="thin"> </span> was one afflicted with a skin disease. See <a href="../leviticus/13.htm">Leviticus 13</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> See <a href="../leviticus/14.htm">Leviticus 14:1–32</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">19</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>has saved you</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">21</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Or <i>within you</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>within your grasp</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">35</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> TR includes <i><span class="fnv">36</span>Two men will be in the field. 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