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While traveling to Jerusalem,⁽ⁿ⁾ He passed between^[h] Samaria and Galilee.^(o)

As He entered a village, 10 men with serious skin diseases^(p) met Him. They stood at a distance

and raised their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master,^(q) have mercy on us!"

When He saw them, He told them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." ^(r) And while they were going, they were healed.^[i]

But one of them, seeing that he was healed, returned and, with a loud voice, gave glory to God.^(s)

He fell facedown^(t) at His feet, thanking Him. And he was a Samaritan.^(u)

Then Jesus said, "Were not 10 cleansed? Where are the nine?

Didn't any return^[j] to give glory to God except this foreigner?"

And He told him, "Get up and go on your way. Your faith has made you well." ^[k](v)

Being^(w) asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God will come,^(x) He answered them, "The kingdom of God is not coming with something observable;

no one will say,^[l] ‘Look here!' or ‘There!' For you see, the kingdom of God is among you."

Then He told the disciples: "The days are coming^(y) when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you won't see it. ^(z)

They will say to you,^(aa) ‘Look there!' or ‘Look here!' Don't follow or run after them. ^(ab)

For as the lightning flashes from horizon to horizon and lights up the sky, so the Son of Man will be in His day. ^(ac)

But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. ^(ad)

"Just as it was in the days of Noah,^(ae) so it will be in the days of the Son of Man:

People went on eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage^(af) until the day Noah boarded the ark,^(ag) and the flood came and destroyed them all.

It will be the same as it was in the days of Lot:^(ah) People went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building.

But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed^(ai) them all.

It^(aj) will be like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed. ^(ak)

On that day, a man on the housetop, whose belongings are in the house, must not come down to get them. Likewise the man who is in the field must not turn back.

Remember Lot's wife! ^(al)

Whoever tries to make his life secure ^[m][n] will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. ^(am)

I tell you, on that night^(an) two will be in one bed: One will be taken and the other will be left.

Two women will be grinding grain together: One will be taken and the other left.

[Two will be in a field: One will be taken, and the other will be left.]" ^[o]

"Where, Lord?"^(ao) they asked Him. He said to them, "Where the corpse is, there also the vultures^(ap) will be gathered."

He then told them a parable on the need for them to pray^(a) always and not become discouraged:^(b)

"There was a judge in a certain town who didn't fear God^(c) or respect man.

And a widow^(d) in that town kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.'

"For a while he was unwilling, but later he said to himself, ‘Even though I don't fear God or respect man,

yet because this widow keeps^(e) pestering me,^[a] I will give her justice, so she doesn't wear me out^[b] by her persistent coming.'"

Then the Lord said, "Listen to what the unjust judge says.

Will not God grant justice^(f) to His elect^(g) who cry out to Him day and night?^(h) Will He delay⁽ⁱ⁾ to help them?^[c]

I tell you that He will swiftly grant them justice. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes,^(j) will He find that faith^[d] on earth?"

He^(k) also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves^(l) that they were righteous^(m) and looked down⁽ⁿ⁾ on everyone else:

"Two men went up to the temple complex to pray,^(o) one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

The Pharisee took his stand ^[e](p) and was praying like this: ‘God, I thank You that I'm not like other people^[f] —greedy,^(q) unrighteous,^(r) adulterers,^(s) or even like this tax collector.

I fast^(t) twice a week; I give a tenth ^[g](u) of everything I get.'

"But the tax collector, standing far off,^(v) would not even raise his eyes to heaven^(w) but kept striking his chest ^[h](x) and saying, ‘God, turn Your wrath from me ^[i](y) —a sinner!'^(z)

I tell you, this one went down to his house justified^(aa) rather than the other; because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted." ^(ab)