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said to His disciples, “Things that cause people to sin are sure to come, but woe to that person through whom they come! 2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.
3 “Be on your guard. If your brothers sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. 4 And if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns back to you seven times and says, ‘I repent’, you must forgive him.”
5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”
6 The Lord replied, “If you have faith as small as a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea’, and it will obey you.
7 “Which one of you who has a slave ploughing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come here at once and sit down to eat’? 8 Would he not rather say, ‘Prepare my supper, get yourself ready, and wait on me while I eat and drink; and you can eat and drink later’? 9 Would he thank the servant because he did what he was ordered to do? 10 So you also, when you have done everything that your ordered to do, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty’.”
11 Now while Jesus going to Jerusalem, He passed through the region between Samaria and Galilee. 12 As He was going into a village, He was met by ten men who had leprosy. They stood at a distance 13 and called out in loud voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”
14 When He saw them, He said to them, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And while they were going, they were cleansed.
15 One of them, when he saw that he was healed, came back, praising God with a loud voice. 16 He fell facedown at Jesus’ feet and thanked Him. And he was a Samaritan.
17 Then Jesus said, “Were there not ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? 18 Wasn’t anyone found to return and give glory to God except this foreigner?” 19 Then He said to him, “Rise and go your way. Your faith has made you well.”
20 Once Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, and He answered them, “The Kingdom of God is not coming with signs that can be observed; 21 nor will people say, ‘Look, here it is’, or, ‘There it is’, because the Kingdom of God is within you.”
22 Then He said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it. 23 People will say to you, ‘Look, here!’ or ‘Look, there!’ Do not go off and run after them. 24 For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so also the Son of Man will be in His day. 25 But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
26 “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man. 27 People were eating and drinking, they married wives, and they were being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 It will be the same as it was in the days of Lot: people were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. 29 But on the day when Lot left Sodom, fire and sulphur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
30 “It will be like this on the day when the Son of Man is revealed. 31 On that day, a man on the housetop, whose belongings are inside the house, must not go down to get them. Likewise, anyone who is in the field must not turn back. 32 Remember Lot’s wife. 33 Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it. 34 I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. 35 Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left. 36 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left.”
37 “Where, Lord?” they asked.
He replied, “Where the dead body is, there also the vultures will be gathered.”