Luke 17:11-20:8

^17:11 It happened as he was on his way to Jerusalem, that he was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee. ¹² As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance. ¹³ They lifted up their voices, saying, “Yeshua, Master, have mercy on us.”

¹⁴ When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the cohanim.” It happened that as they went, they were cleansed. ¹⁵ One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice. ¹⁶ He fell on his face at Yeshua’s feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan. ¹⁷ Yeshua answered, “Weren’t the ten cleansed? But where are the nine? ¹⁸ Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this stranger?” ¹⁹ Then he said to him, “Get up, and go your way. Your faith has healed you.”

²⁰ Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The Kingdom of God does not come with observation; ²¹ neither will they say, ‘Look, here.’ or, ‘Look, there.’ for the Kingdom of God is within you.”

²² He said to the talmidim, “The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. ²³ And they will tell you, ‘Look, there.’ or ‘Look, here.’ Do not go away, nor follow after them, ²⁴ for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part under the sky, shines to the other part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day. ²⁵ But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. ²⁶ As it happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man. ²⁷ They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the box-shaped vessel, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. ²⁸ Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; ²⁹ but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all. ³⁰ It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed. ³¹ In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back. ³² Remember Lot’s wife. ³³ Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will preserve it. ³⁴ I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. The one will be taken, and the other will be left. ³⁵ There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken, and the other will be left.” ³⁶

³⁷ They, answering, asked him, “Where, Lord?”

He said to them, “Where the body is, there will the vultures also be gathered together.”

^18:1 He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, ² saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who did not fear God, and did not respect people. ³ A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ ⁴ He would not for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect people, ⁵ yet because this widow bothers me, I will give her justice, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.'”

⁶ The Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge says. ⁷ Won’t God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them? ⁸ I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

⁹ He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. ¹⁰ “Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. ¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you, that I am not like other people, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. ¹² I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’ ¹³ But the tax collector, standing far away, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner.’ ¹⁴ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

¹⁵ Now they were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the talmidim saw it, they rebuked them. ¹⁶ Yeshua summoned them, saying, “Allow the little children to come to me, and do not hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. ¹⁷ Truly, I tell you, whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

¹⁸ A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit everlasting life?”

¹⁹ Yeshua asked him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one—God. ²⁰ You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.'”

²¹ And he said, “I have kept all these things from my youth up.”

²² When Yeshua heard it, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me.”

²³ But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich.

²⁴ And Yeshua looked at him and said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God. ²⁵ For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle’s eye, than for a rich person to enter into the Kingdom of God.”

²⁶ Those who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?”

²⁷ But he said, “The things which are impossible with man are possible with God.”

²⁸ And Peter said, “Look, we have left our own things and followed you.”

²⁹ He said to them, “Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God’s sake, ³⁰ who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, everlasting life.”

³¹ He took the twelve aside, and said to them, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed. ³² For he will be delivered up to the non-Jews, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on. ³³ They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again.”

³⁴ They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not understand the things that were said. ³⁵ It happened, as he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging. ³⁶ Hearing a crowd going by, he asked what this meant. ³⁷ They told him that Yeshua of Nazareth was passing by. ³⁸ He called out, “Yeshua, Son of David,  have mercy on me.” ³⁹ Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he shouted all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me.”

⁴⁰ Standing still, Yeshua commanded him to be brought to him. When he had come near, he asked him, ⁴¹ “What do you want me to do?”

He said, “Lord, that I may see again.”

⁴² Yeshua said to him, “Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you.”

⁴³ And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.

^19:1 He entered and was passing through Jericho. ² And look, there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. ³ He was trying to see who Yeshua was, and could not because of the crowd, because he was short. ⁴ He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way. ⁵ And as he came to the place, looking up, Yeshua saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.” ⁶ He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully. ⁷ And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

⁸ And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”

⁹ Yeshua said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham. ¹⁰ For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

¹¹ As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom of God would be revealed immediately. ¹² He said therefore, “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. ¹³ He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, ‘Conduct business until I come.’ ¹⁴ But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’

¹⁵ “It happened when he had come back again, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business. ¹⁶ The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.’

¹⁷ “And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant. Because you were faithful with very little, you will have authority over ten cities.’

¹⁸ “The second came, saying, ‘Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.’

¹⁹ “So he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’ ²⁰ Another came, saying, ‘Lord, look, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief, ²¹ for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you did not lay down, and reap that which you did not sow.’

²² “He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I did not lay down, and reaping that which I did not sow. ²³ Then why did you not deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’ ²⁴ He said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten minas.’

²⁵ “They said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas.’ ²⁶ ‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who does not have, even that which he has will be taken away. ²⁷ But bring those enemies of mine who did not want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.'” ²⁸ Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

²⁹ It happened, when he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of the talmidim, ³⁰ saying, “Go your way into the village on the other side, in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, whereon no one ever yet sat. Untie it, and bring it. ³¹ If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ say to him: ‘Because the Lord needs it.'”

³² Those who were sent went away, and found things just as he had told them. ³³ As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?” ³⁴ They said, “Because the Lord needs it.” ³⁵ They brought it to Yeshua. They threw their cloaks on the colt, and set Yeshua on them. ³⁶ As he went, they spread their cloaks in the way. ³⁷ As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the talmidim began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen, ³⁸ saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord. Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.”

³⁹ Some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your talmidim.”

⁴⁰ He answered them, “I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.”

⁴¹ When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it, ⁴² saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things that make for peace. But now, they are hidden from your eyes. ⁴³ For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side, ⁴⁴ and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

⁴⁵ And he entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who were selling and buying in it, ⁴⁶ saying to them, “It is written, ‘And my house will be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’.”

⁴⁷ He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief cohanim and the scribes and the leaders among the people sought to destroy him. ⁴⁸ They could not find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.

^20:1 It happened on one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and proclaiming the Good News, that the chief cohanim and scribes came to him with the elders. ² They asked him, “Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?”

³ He answered them, “I also will ask you one question. Tell me: ⁴ the immersion of John, was it from heaven, or from man?”

⁵ They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’ ⁶ But if we say, ‘From man,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.” ⁷ They answered that they did not know where it was from.

⁸ Yeshua said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”