Causes for Stumbling
THEN said He to the disciples: “It is impossible, but that causes for stumbling will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!
2 It be better for him, that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.
3 Take heed to yourselves: If your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.
4 And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turns again to you, saying: ‘I repent’; you shall forgive him.”
5 And the apostles said to the Lord: “Increase our faith.”
6 And the Lord said: “If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree: ‘Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea’; and it would obey you.”
Doing Your Duty
7 “But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say to him at once, when he has come from the field: ‘Go and sit down to meal?’
8 Will you not rather say to him: ‘Make ready wherewith I may eat, and gird yourself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward you shall eat and drink?’
9 Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I think not.
10 So likewise you, when you shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say: ‘We are unworthy servants: we have only done that which was our duty to do.”
Jesus Cleanses Ten Lepers
11 And it came to pass, as He went to Jerusalem, that He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.
12 And as He entered into a certain village, there met Him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:
13 And they lifted up their voices, and said: “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.”
14 And when He saw them, He said to them: “Go show yourselves to the priests.” And it came to pass, that, as they went: they were cleansed.
15 And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,
16 And fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.
17 And Jesus answering said: “Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?
18 Are there not found, to return to give glory to God, except this foreigner?”
19 And He said to him: “Arise, go your way: your faith has made you whole.”
The Kingdom of God
20 And when He was asked by the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, He answered them and said: “The kingdom of God comes not with observation:
21 Neither shall they say: ‘Lo here!’ or: ‘lo there!’ for, behold: the kingdom of God is within you.”
22 And He said to the disciples: “The days will come, when you shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and you shall not see it.
23 And they shall say to you: ‘See here;’ or: ‘see there:’ go not after them, nor follow them.
24 For as the lightning, that lightens out of the one part under heaven, shines to the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in His day.
25 But first must He suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
26 And as it was in the days of Noah: so shall it also be, in the days of the Son of man.
27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage: until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise also, as it was in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom: it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
32 Remember Lot’s wife.
33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life, shall preserve it.
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.”
37 And they answered and said to Him: “Where, Lord?” And He said to them: “Wheresoever the body is, there will the vultures be gathered together.”