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17:1  Jesus said to his disciples, “Things that cause people to trip and fall into sin must happen, but how terrible it is for the person through whom they happen.
17:2  It would be better for them to be thrown into a lake with a large stone hung around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to trip and fall into sin.
17:3  Watch yourselves! If your brother or sister sins, warn them to stop. If they change their hearts and lives, forgive them.
17:4  Even if someone sins against you seven times in one day and returns to you seven times and says, ‘I am changing my ways,’ you must forgive that person.”
17:5  The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”
17:6  The Lord replied, “If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
17:7  “Would any of you say to your servant, who had just come in from the field after plowing or tending sheep, ‘Come! Sit down for dinner’?
17:8  Wouldn’t you say instead, ‘Fix my dinner. Put on the clothes of a table servant and wait on me while I eat and drink. After that, you can eat and drink’?
17:9  You won’t thank the servant because the servant did what you asked, will you?
17:10  In the same way, when you have done everything required of you, you should say, ‘We servants deserve no special praise. We have only done our duty.’”
17:11  On the way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee.
17:12  As he entered a village, ten men with skin diseases approached him. Keeping their distance from him,
17:13  they raised their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, show us mercy!”
17:14  When Jesus saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” As they left, they were cleansed.
17:15  One of them, when he saw that he had been healed, returned and praised God with a loud voice.
17:16  He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. He was a Samaritan.
17:17  Jesus replied, “Weren’t ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?
17:18  No one returned to praise God except this foreigner?”
17:19  Then Jesus said to him, “Get up and go. Your faith has healed you.”
17:20  Pharisees asked Jesus when God’s kingdom was coming. He replied, “God’s kingdom isn’t coming with signs that are easily noticed.
17:21  Nor will people say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There it is!’ Don’t you see? God’s kingdom is already among you.”
17:22  Then Jesus said to the disciples, “The time will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Human One, and you won’t see it.
17:23  People will say to you, ‘Look there!’ or ‘Look here!’ Don’t leave or go chasing after them.
17:24  The Human One will appear on his day in the same way that a flash of lightning lights up the sky from one end to the other.
17:25  However, first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
17:26  “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be during the days of the Human One.
17:27  People were eating, drinking, marrying, and being given in marriage until the day Noah entered the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.
17:28  Likewise in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, and building.
17:29  But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
17:30  That’s the way it will be on the day the Human One is revealed.
17:31  On that day, those on the roof, whose possessions are in the house, shouldn’t come down to grab them. Likewise, those in the field shouldn’t turn back.
17:32  Remember Lot’s wife!
17:33  Whoever tries to preserve their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life will preserve it.
17:34  I tell you, on that night two people will be in the same bed: one will be taken and the other left.
17:35  Two women will be grinding grain together: one will be taken and the other left.”
17:37  The disciples asked, “Where, Lord?” Jesus said, “The vultures gather wherever there’s a dead body.”