Luke 17:12-37
17:12 As
he was entering
a village, ten men with leprosy
met him. They
stood at a distance,
17:13 raised their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy
on us.”
17:14 When
he saw them he said, “Go
and show yourselves to the priests.”
And
as they went along, they were cleansed.
17:15 Then one of them, when he saw he was healed, turned back, praising
God with a loud voice.
17:16 He
fell with his face to the ground
at Jesus’ feet and thanked him.
(Now
he was a Samaritan.)
17:17 Then
Jesus said,
“Were
not ten cleansed? Where are the other
nine?
17:18 Was no one found to turn back and give praise to God except this foreigner?”
17:19 Then
he said to the man,
“Get up and go your way. Your faith has made you well.”
The Coming of the Kingdom
17:20 Now at one point the Pharisees asked Jesus when the kingdom of God was coming, so he answered, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed,
17:21 nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”
The Coming of the Son of Man
17:22 Then he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.
17:23 Then people will say to you, ‘Look, there he is!’ or ‘Look, here he is!’ Do not go out or chase after them.
17:24 For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.
17:25 But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
17:26 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man.
17:27 People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
17:28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;
17:29 but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
17:30 It will be the same on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
17:31 On that day, anyone who is on the roof, with his goods in the house, must not come down to take them away, and likewise the person in the field must not turn back.
17:32 Remember Lot’s wife!
17:33 Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
17:34 I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.
17:35 There will be two women grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.”
17:36 [[EMPTY]]
17:37 Then the disciples said to him, “Where, Lord?” He replied to them, “Where the dead body is, there the vultures will gather.”