1 Now He said to His disciples: "It is inevitable that snares to evil will come, but a curse be on the man through whom they come! 2 It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck, and he be hurled into the sea, than for him to ensnare one of these lowly ones. 3 "Be always looking out for another. If your brother ever sins, reprove him, and if he repents, forgive him. 4 Even if he sins against you seven times in a day and seven times turns to you and says, 'I am sorry,' you must forgive him."
5 Then the apostles said to the Lord, "Give us more faith."
6 Then the Lord said to them, "If you had faith that grows like a mustard seed, you might have been saying to this mulberry tree, 'Pull yourself up by the roots and plant yourself in the sea,' and it would have obeyed you!
7 "What man among you, if he has a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come at once and take your seat at the table,' 8 but will not rather say to him, 'Get my supper ready, and dress yourself and wait on me until I eat and drink, and you yourself can eat and drink afterward'? 9 Does he praise the slave for doing what he was ordered to do? 10 So you too, when you do all that you are ordered to do, say, 'We are worthless slaves; we have done only what we ought to have done.'"
11 As He was going on to Jerusalem, He chanced to pass through Samaria and Galilee. 12 And as He was going into one village, ten lepers met Him, who got up at some distance from Him, 13 and raised their voices and said, "Jesus, Master, do take pity on us!"
14 So as soon as He saw them, He said to them, "Go at once and show yourselves to the priests." And while they were going they were cured.
15 But one of them, when he saw that he was cured, came back, praising God with a loud voice, 16 and fell on his face at Jesus' feet, and continued to thank Him. Now he was a Samaritan.
17 And Jesus said, "Were not ten cured? Where are the other nine? 18 Were none found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?" 19 Then He said to him, "Get up and go on your way. Your faith has cured you."
20 Now, when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them, "The kingdom of God is not coming with visible display, 21 and so people will not say, 'Look! Here it is,' nor, 'There it is,' for the kingdom of God is within you."
22 Then He said to His disciples, "The time will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it. 23 And men will say to you, 'Look! There he is!' or, 'Look! Here He is!' Do not start in pursuit of Him, 24 for just as when the lightning flashes, it shines from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of Man be when He comes. 25 But first He has to endure much suffering, and be disowned by this age.
26 And just as it was in the time of Noah, so it will be in the time of the Son of Man. 27 People continued to eat, drink, marry, and be married, right up to the day when Noah went into the ark, and the Flood came and destroyed them all. 28 It was so in the time of Lot; people continued to eat, drink, buy, sell, plant, and build; 29 and the very day Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 It will be so on the day when the Son of Man appears 31 The man who is on the roof of his house that day, and his goods in the house, must not come down to carry them out; and the man in the field, too, must not turn back. 32 Remember Lot's wife! 33 Whoever tries to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will preserve it. 34 I tell you, two men will be in the same bed that night; one will be taken, the other left. 35 Two women will be grinding together; one will be taken, the other left." 36 Omitted Text.
37 Then they asked Him, "Where, Lord, will this be?" And He said to them, "Wherever there is carrion the vultures will flock."