Luke 17

Sin, Forgiveness, Faith, and Service

¹ But he said to his disciples: It is impossible for stumblings not to come, but woe through whom they come. ² It is better for him if [a] millstone is placed around his neck and he is hurled into the sea, than that he stumble one of these little [ones]. ³ Be paying heed to yourselves. If your brother sin, rebuke him, and if he repent, forgive him. ⁴ And if seven times during the day he sin against you and seven times he return to you saying: I repent, forgive him.

⁵ And the apostles said to the Lord: Add¹ faith to us. ⁶ But the Lord said: If you have faith as [a] mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree: Be uprooted and be planted in the sea; and it would obey you.

⁷ But who among you having [a] slave plowing or shepherding, who when he enter from the field he say to him: Straightway having come by, recline! ⁸ But rather he says to him: Prepare something I may eat, and being girded [about] be serving me until I eat and drink, and after these you eat and drink. ⁹ Does he have grace for the slave who did the [things] commanded? ¹⁰ Thus you also, when you do everything commanded to you, be saying that: We are worthless slaves, what we owe² to do we have done.

The Grateful Leper

¹¹ And it came to pass when proceeding to Jerusalem, he was going through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. ¹² And when he was entering one certain village, ten leprous men met him, who stood from afar. ¹³ And they lifted [their] voice saying: Jesus master, have mercy upon us. ¹⁴ And seeing, he said to them: Having gone show yourselves to the priest. And it came to pass in the going away they were cleansed. ¹⁵ But one of them, seeing that he was healed, returned with [a] great voice praising God, ¹⁶ and fell on his face by his feet thanking him. And he was [a] Samaritan. ¹⁷ But answering, Jesus said: Were not ten cleansed? Where [are] the nine? ¹⁸ Were there not found having returned to give glory to God except this foreigner? ¹⁹ And he said to him, Having stood, be going, your faith has saved you.

The Coming of the Kingdom

²⁰ Now when he was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God comes, he answered them and said: The kingdom of God does not come with observations, ²¹ neither will they say: Behold here or there [it is]. For behold the kingdom of God is among you³.

The Coming of the Son of Man

²² But he said to his disciples: The days will come when you will lust to see one of the days of the son of man and you will not see. ²³ And they will say to you: Behold [he is] there, behold here. Do not go out nor pursue. ²⁴ For just as the lightning when it flashes shines from that under heaven to that under heaven, thus will the son of man ⁴ in his day. ²⁵ But first it is necessary he suffer and be rejected by this generation. ²⁶ And just as it came to pass in the days of Noah, thus will it be in the days of the son of man. ²⁷ They were eating, were drinking, were marrying, were being given in marriage, until which day Noah entered the ark, and the cataclysm came and all perished. ²⁸ Likewise just as it came to pass in the days of Lot. They were eating, were drinking, were buying, were selling, were planting, were building; ²⁹ but in the day Lot departed from Sodom, fire and brimstone rained from heaven and all perished. ³⁰ According to such [things] will it be in the day the son of man is revealed. ³¹ In that day, whoever will be on the roof and his property in the house, let⁵ him not come down to take it. And the [one] in the field likewise let⁵ him not return to the [things] behind. ³² Remember Lot's wife. ³³ But whoever seeks to save⁶ his psyche-life⁷ will lose⁸ it, and whoever loses⁸ [it] will make⁹ it zoe-alive¹⁰ . ³⁴ I say to you, in this¹¹ night two will be in one bed—the one will be received, the other will be left. ³⁵ There will be two grinding together¹²—the one will be received, the other will be left. ³⁶ ¹³ ³⁷ And answering they say to him: Where Lord? But he said to them: Where the body¹⁴ [is], there also will the vultures be gathered.

¹or "Increase"

²or "ought," "are obligated"

³`you' is plural

⁴"in his day" W vg K; omit: p⁷⁵BD

⁵imperative

⁶"save": ℵAWK; "make his psyche-life zoe-alive": D; "acquire his psyche-life": p⁷⁵B

⁷from PSYCHE (ψυχη): an individual manifestation of life/consciousness. Animals have PSYCHEs as well as humans. Contrast ZOE (ζωη)—Life 'collectively', interdependent, interconnected.

⁸APOLLUMI (απoλλυμι) To lose something that one previously possessed. Can also mean `ruin' or `destroy'—see Rev.9:11 where the angel of the Abyss is named `Apollyon' (same root word).

⁹or 'keep'

¹⁰from ZOE "ZOH-ay" (ζωη)—Life 'collectively', interdependent, interconnected. Although it means 'life' in the conventional sense (for example: Matt.9:18, Matt.27:63, Luke.2:36, Acts.25:24, Rom.7:2, 2Cor.1:8, 1Thes.4:17, 1Tim.5:10, Rev.19:20), Jesus uses ZOE exclusively of 'life eternal' (with the possible exceptions of Luke.15:13, Luke.16:25). The other N.T. writers use ZOE in both senses—temporal and eternal, generally clear from the context. The Father is the 'zoe-living God' (see Matt.16:16). The Septuagint (LXX) in Gen.2:7 has "...[God] breathed into his nostrils the breath of zoe-life, and the man became a zoe-living psyche-life" (and see 1Cor.15:45); and Gen.3:20 (LXX) "And Adam called his wife's name ZOE, because she was the mother of all zoe-living." Contrast PSYCHE (ψυχη): an individual manifestation of life/consciousness. See John.12:25 where both ZOE and PSYCHE occur. Greek also has the word BIOS (βιoς ) for 'life' in the sense of biological processes.

¹¹i.e. the aforementioned

¹²may refer to a hand mill normally operated by two women.

¹³add vs. 36: "[There will be] two in [the] field—one will be received, and the other left." D vg; omit vs. 36: BDWKH

¹⁴or "carcass"