1 To his disciples he said, "It is inevitable that hindrances should come, but woe to the man by whom they come;
2 it would be well for him to have a millstone hung round his neck and be flung into the sea, rather than prove a hindrance to one of these little ones!
3 Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins, check him, and if he repents forgive him.
4 Even if he sins against you seven times in one day and turns to you seven times saying, 'I repent,' you must forgive him."
6 The Lord said, "If you had faith the size of a grain of mustard-seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.
7 Which of you, with a servant out ploughing or shepherding, will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come at once and take your place at table'?
8 Will the man not rather say to him, 'Get some thing ready for my supper; gird yourself and wait on me till I eat and drink; then you can eat and drink yourself'?
9 Does he thank the servant for doing his bidding?
10 Well, it is the same with you; when you have done all you are bidden, say, 'We are but servants; we have only done our duty.' "
11 Now it happened in the course of his journey to Jerusalem that he passed between Samaria and Galilee.
12 On entering one village he was met by ten lepers who stood at a distance
13 and lifted up their voice, saying, "Jesus, master, have pity on us."
14 Noticing them he said, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went away they were cleansed.
15 Now one of them turned back when he saw he was cured, glorifying God with a loud voice;
16 and he fell on his face at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. The man was a Samaritan.
17 So Jesus said, "Were all the ten not cleansed? Where are the other nine?
18 Was there no one to return and give glory to God except this foreigner?"
19 And he said to him, "Get up and go, your faith has made you well."
20 On being asked by the Pharisees when the Reign of God was coming, he answered them, "The Reign of God is not coming as you hope to catch sight of it;
21 no one will say, 'Here it is' or 'There it is,' for the Reign of God is now in your midst."
22 To his disciples he said, "There will come days when you will long and long in vain to have even one day of the Son of man.
23 Men will say, 'See, here he is!' 'See, there he is!' but do not go out or run after them,
24 for like lightning that flashes from one side of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be on his own day.
25 But he must first endure great suffering and be rejected by the present generation.
26 And just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of man;
27 they were eating, drinking, marrying and being married, till the day Noah entered the ark ??then came the deluge and destroyed them all.
28 Or just as it was in the days of Lot; they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting and building,
29 but on the day that Lot left Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
30 So will it be on the day the Son of man is revealed.
31 On that day, if a man is on the housetop and his goods inside the house, he must not go down to fetch them out; nor must a man in the field turn back
32 (remember Lot's wife).
33 Whoever tries to secure his life will lose it, and whoever loses it will preserve it.
34 On that night, I tell you, there will be two men in the one bed, the one will be taken and the other left;
35 two women will be grinding together, the one will be taken and the other left."
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