1 He said to the disciples, "It cannot be that causes of stumbling will not come; but woe to the one through whom they come!
2 He would be better off having a millstone hung around his neck and being hurled into the sea than causing one of these little ones to stumble.
3 Watch yourselves. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.
4 Even if he sins against you seven times in a day and comes back to you seven times in a day saying, 'I repent,' you must forgive him."
5 The apostles said to the Lord, "Give us more faith."
6 The Lord said, "If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would do what you said.
7 "Which of you who has a servant out plowing or keeping sheep will tell him when he comes in from the field, 'Come right away and take your place at the table'?
8 Will he not tell him instead, 'Get my supper ready, put on your apron, and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you can eat and drink'?
9 Does he owe thanks to the servant because he carried out his orders? I do not think so.
10 So it is with you: when you have done everything you were ordered to do, say, 'We are servants who deserve nothing; we have only done what we were obliged to do.'"
11 On the way to Jerusalem he was passing between Samaria and Galilee.
12 As he went into a village, ten leprous men met him. They stood some distance away
13 and raised their voices: "Jesus, Master, take pity on us!"
14 Seeing them, he said, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they were going, they were made clean.
15 One of them, seeing that he had been healed, came back praising God in a loud voice.
16 He threw himself face down at Jesus' feet and thanked him; and he was a Samaritan.
17 Jesus responded, "Were not ten made clean? Where are the other nine?
18 Was no one found to come back and give glory to God except this foreigner?"
19 Then he said to him, "Get up and go on your way; your faith has made you well."
20 Asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, he answered them, "The kingdom of God is not coming in a way that can be watched for;
21 nor will people say, 'Here it is!' or 'There it is!' For in fact the kingdom of God is within you."
22 To the disciples he said, "Days are coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.
23 People will tell you, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Do not go off or chase after them.
24 For just as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end under heaven to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.
25 But first he has to suffer much and be rejected by this generation.
26 Just as it happened in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man.
27 People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah went into the ark; then the flood came and destroyed them all.
28 It was the same in the days of Lot: people were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building;
29 but on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
30 It will be just like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
31 "On that day, anyone who is on the roof, with his belongings in the house, must not go down to get them; and likewise anyone in the field must not turn back to what is behind.
32 Remember the wife of Lot.
33 Whoever tries to keep his life safe will lose it, and whoever loses it will keep it alive.
34 I tell you, on that night two people will be 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 They asked him in reply, "Where, Lord?" He told them, "Where the body is, there the eagles will also flock together."