Luke 17:1-21 ▼

1 He sayde vnto the disciples, it can not be but offences wyll come, neuerthelesse, wo vnto hym, through whom they come.

2 It were better for hym, that a mylstone were hanged about his necke, & he cast into the sea, then that he shoulde offende one of these litle ones.

3 Take heede to your selues: If thy brother trespasse agaynst thee, rebuke hym: and yf he repent, forgeue hym.

4 And though he sinne agaynst thee seuen tymes in a day, and seuen tymes in a day turne agayne to thee, saying, it repenteth me: thou shalt forgeue hym.

5 And the Apostles sayde vnto the Lorde: increase our fayth.

6 And the Lorde sayde: If ye had fayth as much as a grayne of mustarde seede, & should say vnto this Sycamine tree, plucke vp thy selfe by the rootes, and plant thy selfe in the sea, it shoulde obey you.

7 But which of you, hauyng a seruaunt plowyng, or feedyng cattell, woulde say vnto hym by & by when he were come from the fielde, go and syt downe at the table:

8 And woulde not rather say vnto hym, dresse, wherwith I may suppe, & gyrde vp thy selfe, and serue me, tyll I haue eaten and dronken, and afterward eate thou, and drynke thou?

9 Doth he thanke that seruaunt, because he dyd the thynges that were commaunded vnto hym? I trowe not.

10 So lykewyse ye, when ye haue done all those thynges which are commaunded you, say, We are vnprofitable seruauntes, We haue done that which was our duetie to do.

11 And so it was, as he went to Hierusalem, that he passed through the myddest of Samaria and Galilee.

12 And as he entred into a certayne towne, there met hym ten men that were lepers, which stoode a farre of,

13 And put foorth their voyces, & sayde: Iesu maister, haue mercie on vs.

14 When he sawe them, he sayde vnto them: Go shewe your selues vnto the priestes. And it came to passe, that as they went, they were clensed.

15 And one of them, when he sawe that he was healed, turned backe agayne and with a loude voyce praysed God:

16 And fell downe on his face at his feete, and gaue hym thankes: And the same was a Samaritane.

17 And Iesus aunswered, and sayde: Are there not ten clensed? But where are those nine?

18 There are not founde that returned agayne, to geue God prayse, saue only this straunger.

19 And he sayde vnto hym: aryse, go thy way, thy fayth hath made thee whole.

20 When he was demaunded of the pharisees, when the kyngdome of God shoulde come: he aunswered them, and sayde, The kyngdome of God shall not come with obseruation.

21 Neither shall they say, lo here, or lo there: For beholde, the kyngdome of God is within you.