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¹ Jesus said to His disciples, "It is inevitable that causes of stumbling should come; but alas for him through whom they come!² It would be well for him if, with a millstone round his neck, he were lying at the bottom of the sea, rather than that he should cause even one of these little ones to fall.³ Be on your guard. "If your brother acts wrongly, reprove him; and if he is sorry, forgive him;⁴ and if seven times in a day he acts wrongly towards you, and seven times turns again to you and says, `I am sorry,' you must forgive him."<sup>5</sup> And the Apostles said to the Lord, "Give us faith."<sup>6</sup> "If your faith," replied the Lord, "is like a mustard seed, you might command this black-mulberry-tree, `Tear up your roots and plant yourself in the sea,' and instantly it would obey you.⁷ But which of you who has a servant ploughing, or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the farm, `Come at once and take your place at table,'<sup>8</sup> and will not rather say to him, `Get my dinner ready, make yourself tidy, and wait upon me till I have finished my dinner, and then you shall have yours'?⁹ Does he thank the servant for obeying his orders?¹⁰ So you also, when you have obeyed all the orders given you, must say, "`There is no merit in our service: what we have done is only what we were in duty bound to do.'"

¹¹ As they pursued their journey to Jerusalem, He passed through Samaria and Galilee.¹² And as He entered a certain village, ten men met Him who were lepers and stood at a distance.¹³ In loud voices they cried out, "Jesus, Rabbi, take pity on us."¹⁴ Perceiving this, He said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the Priests." And while on their way to do this they were made clean.¹⁵ One of them, seeing that he was cured, came back, adoring and praising God in a loud voice,¹⁶ and he threw himself at the feet of Jesus, thanking Him. He was a Samaritan.¹⁷ "Were not all ten made clean?" Jesus asked; "but where are the nine?¹⁸ Have none been found to come back and give glory to God except this foreigner?"¹⁹ And He said to him, "Rise and go: your faith has cured you."

²⁰ Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God was coming, He answered, "The Kingdom of God does not so come that you can stealthily watch for it.²¹ Nor will they say, `See here!' or `See there!' --for the Kingdom of God is within you."²² Then, turning to His disciples, He said, "There will come a time when you will wish you could see a single one of the days of the Son of Man, but will not see one.²³ And they will say to you, `See there!' `See here!' Do not start off and go in pursuit.²⁴ For just as the lightning, when it flashes, shines from one part of the horizon to the opposite part, so will the Son of Man be on His day.²⁵ But first He must endure much suffering, and be rejected by the present generation.²⁶ "And as it was in the time of Noah, so will it also be in the time of the Son of Man.²⁷ Men were eating and drinking, taking wives and giving wives, up to the very day on which Noah entered the Ark, and the Deluge came and destroyed them all.²⁸ The same was true in the time of Lot: they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building;²⁹ but on the day that Lot left Sodom, God rained fire and brimstone from the sky and destroyed them all.³⁰ Exactly so will it be on the day that the veil is lifted from the Son of Man.³¹ "On that day, if a man is on the roof and his property indoors, let him not go down to fetch it; and, in the same way, he who is in the field, let him not turn back.³² Remember Lot's wife.³³ Any man who makes it his object to keep his own life safe, will lose it; but whoever loses his life will preserve it.³⁴ On that night, I tell you, there will be two men in one bed: one will be taken away and the other left behind.³⁵ There will be two women turning the mill together: one will be taken away and the other left behind."³⁶ []³⁷ "Where, Master?" they inquired. "Where the dead body is," He replied, "there also will the vultures flock together."