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But anyone who causes them to sin is in for trouble. A person who causes even one of my little followers to sin </span><span class="v42_17_2"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.2" class="v42_17_2">2</span>would be better off thrown into the ocean with a heavy stone tied around their neck. </span><span class="v42_17_3"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.3" class="v42_17_3">3</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.17.3!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> So be careful what you do.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v42_17_3">Correct any followers<a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.17.3!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> of mine who sin, and forgive the ones who say they are sorry. </span><span class="v42_17_4"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.4" class="v42_17_4">4</span>Even if one of them mistreats you seven times in one day and says, “I am sorry,” you should still forgive that person.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_17_5"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.5" class="v42_17_5">5</span>The apostles said to the Lord, “Make our faith stronger!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_17_6"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.6" class="v42_17_6">6</span>Jesus replied:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v42_17_6">If you had faith no bigger than a tiny mustard seed, you could tell this mulberry tree to pull itself up, roots and all, and to plant itself in the ocean. And it would!</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v42_17_7"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.7" class="v42_17_7">7</span>If your servant comes in from plowing or from taking care of the sheep, would you say, “Welcome! Come on in and have something to eat”? </span><span class="v42_17_8"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.8" class="v42_17_8">8</span>No, you wouldn't say that. You would say, “Prepare me something to eat. Get ready to serve me, so I can have my meal. Then later on you can eat and drink.” </span><span class="v42_17_9"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.9" class="v42_17_9">9</span>Servants don't deserve special thanks for doing what they are supposed to do. </span><span class="v42_17_10"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.10" class="v42_17_10">10</span>And that's how it should be with you. When you've done all you should, then say, “We are merely servants, and we have simply done our duty.”</span></p><h3 class="s1">Ten Men with Leprosy</h3><p class="par"><span class="v42_17_11"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.11" class="v42_17_11">11</span>On his way to Jerusalem, Jesus went along the border between Samaria and Galilee. </span><span class="v42_17_12"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.12" class="v42_17_12">12</span>As he was going into a village, ten men with leprosy<a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.17.12!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> came toward him. They stood at a distance </span><span class="v42_17_13"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.13" class="v42_17_13">13</span>and shouted, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_17_14"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.14" class="v42_17_14">14</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.17.14!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Jesus looked at them and said, “Go show yourselves to the priests.”<a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.17.14!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_17_14">On their way they were healed. </span><span class="v42_17_15"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.15" class="v42_17_15">15</span>When one of them discovered that he was healed, he came back, shouting praises to God. </span><span class="v42_17_16"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.16" class="v42_17_16">16</span>He bowed down at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. The man was from the country of Samaria.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_17_17"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.17" class="v42_17_17">17</span>Jesus asked, “Weren't ten men healed? Where are the other nine? </span><span class="v42_17_18"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.18" class="v42_17_18">18</span>Why was this foreigner the only one who came back to thank God?” </span><span class="v42_17_19"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.19" class="v42_17_19">19</span>Then Jesus told the man, “You may get up and go. Your faith has made you well.”</span></p><h3 class="s1">God's Kingdom</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 24:23-28">Matthew 24.23-28</ref>,<ref loc="MAT 24:37-41">37-41</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_17_20"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.20" class="v42_17_20">20</span>Some Pharisees asked Jesus when God's kingdom would come. He answered, “God's kingdom isn't something you can see. </span><span class="v42_17_21"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.21" class="v42_17_21">21</span>There is no use saying, ‘Look! Here it is’ or ‘Look! There it is.’ God's kingdom is here with you.”<a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.17.21!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_17_22"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.22" class="v42_17_22">22</span>Jesus said to his disciples:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v42_17_22">The time will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not. </span><span class="v42_17_23"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.23" class="v42_17_23">23</span>When people say to you, “Look there,” or “Look here,” don't go looking for him. </span><span class="v42_17_24"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.24" class="v42_17_24">24</span>The day of the Son of Man will be like lightning flashing across the sky. </span><span class="v42_17_25"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.25" class="v42_17_25">25</span>But first he must suffer terribly and be rejected by the people of today. </span><span class="v42_17_26"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.26" class="v42_17_26">26</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.17.26!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> When the Son of Man comes, things will be just as they were when Noah lived. </span><span class="v42_17_27"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.27" class="v42_17_27">27</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.17.27!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> People were eating, drinking, and getting married right up to the day when Noah went into the big boat. Then the flood came and drowned everyone on earth.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v42_17_28"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.28" class="v42_17_28">28</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.17.28!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> When Lot<a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.17.28!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> lived, people were also eating and drinking. They were buying, selling, planting, and building. </span><span class="v42_17_29"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.29" class="v42_17_29">29</span>But on the very day Lot left Sodom, fiery flames poured down from the sky and killed everyone. </span><span class="v42_17_30"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.30" class="v42_17_30">30</span>The same will happen on the day when the Son of Man appears.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v42_17_31"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.31" class="v42_17_31">31</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.17.31!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> At that time no one on a rooftop<a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.17.31!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> should go down into the house to get anything. No one in a field should go back to the house for anything. </span><span class="v42_17_32"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.32" class="v42_17_32">32</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.17.32!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Remember what happened to Lot's wife.<a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.17.32!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v42_17_33"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.33" class="v42_17_33">33</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.17.33!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> People who try to save their lives will lose them, and those who lose their lives will save them. </span><span class="v42_17_34"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.34" class="v42_17_34">34</span>On that night two people will be sleeping in the same bed, but only one will be taken. The other will be left. </span><span class="v42_17_35"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.35-Luke.17.36" class="v42_17_35">35-36</span>Two women will be together grinding wheat, but only one will be taken. The other will be left.<a href="#Luke.17.35-Luke.17.36!f.1" id="link_Luke.17.35-Luke.17.36!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_17_37"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.17.37" class="v42_17_37">37</span>Then Jesus' disciples spoke up, “But where will this happen, Lord?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_17_37">Jesus said, “Where there is a corpse, there will always be vultures.”<a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.17.37!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p></div> </div> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.3 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">followers: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Greek text has “brothers,” which is often used in the New Testament for followers of Jesus.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.12 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">leprosy: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 4.27.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.14 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">show yourselves to the priests: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 5.14.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.21 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">here with you: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “in your hearts.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.27,28 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Noah … Lot: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">When God destroyed the earth by a flood, he saved Noah and his family. And when God destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and the evil people who lived there, he rescued Lot and his family (see Genesis 19.1-29).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.31 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">rooftop: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 5.19.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.32 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">what happened to Lot's wife: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">She turned into a block of salt when she disobeyed God (see Genesis 19.26).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.35,36 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">will be left: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some manuscripts add, “Two men will be in the same field, but only one will be taken. The other will be left.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.37 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Where there is a corpse, there will always be vultures: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This saying may mean that when anything important happens, people soon know about it. Or the saying may mean that whenever something bad happens, curious people gather around and stare. But the word translated “vulture” also means “eagle” and may refer to the Roman army, which had an eagle as its symbol.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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