| 1 | And he said unto the disciples, `It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, but wo [to him] through whom they come; |
| 2 | it is more profitable to him if a weighty millstone is put round about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea, than that he may cause one of these little ones to stumble. |
| 3 | `Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him, |
| 4 | and if seven times in the day he may sin against thee, and seven times in the day may turn back to thee, saying, I reform; thou shalt forgive him.` |
| 5 | And the apostles said to the Lord, `Add to us faith;` |
| 6 | and the Lord said, `If ye had faith as a grain of mustard, ye would have said to this sycamine, Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea, and it would have obeyed you. |
| 7 | `But, who is he of you -- having a servant ploughing or feeding -- who, to him having come in out of the field, will say, Having come near, recline at meat? |
| 8 | but will not [rather] say to him, Prepare what I may sup, and having girded thyself about, minister to me, till I eat and drink, and after these things thou shalt eat and drink? |
| 9 | Hath he favour to that servant because he did the things directed? I think not. |
| 10 | `So also ye, when ye may have done all the things directed you, say -- We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do -- we have done.` |
| 11 | And it came to pass, in his going on to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee, |
| 12 | and he entering into a certain village, there met him ten leprous men, who stood afar off, |
| 13 | and they lifted up the voice, saying, `Jesus, master, deal kindly with us;` |
| 14 | and having seen [them], he said to them, `Having gone on, shew yourselves to the priests;` and it came to pass, in their going, they were cleansed, |
| 15 | and one of them having seen that he was healed did turn back, with a loud voice glorifying God, |
| 16 | and he fell upon [his] face at his feet, giving thanks to him, and he was a Samaritan. |
| 17 | And Jesus answering said, `Were not the ten cleansed, and the nine -- where? |
| 18 | There were not found who did turn back to give glory to God, except this alien;` |
| 19 | and he said to him, `Having risen, be going on, thy faith hath saved thee.` |
| 20 | And having been questioned by the Pharisees, when the reign of God doth come, he answered them, and said, `The reign of God doth not come with observation; |
| 21 | nor shall they say, Lo, here; or lo, there; for lo, the reign of God is within you.` |
| 22 | And he said unto his disciples, `Days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and ye shall not behold [it]; |
| 23 | and they shall say to you, Lo, here; or lo, there; ye may not go away, nor follow; |
| 24 | for as the lightning that is lightening out of the one [part] under heaven, to the other part under heaven doth shine, so shall be also the Son of Man in his day; |
| 25 | and first it behoveth him to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this generation. |
| 26 | `And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man; |
| 27 | they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all; |
| 28 | in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; |
| 29 | and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all. |
| 30 | `According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed; |
| 31 | in that day, he who shall be on the house top, and his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and he in the field, in like manner, let him not turn backward; |
| 32 | remember the wife of Lot. |
| 33 | Whoever may seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever may lose it, shall preserve it. |
| 34 | `I say to you, In that night, there shall be two men on one couch, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left; |
| 35 | two women shall be grinding at the same place together, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left; |
| 36 | two men shall be in the field, the one shall be taken, and the other left.` |
| 37 | And they answering say to him, `Where, sir?` and he said to them, `Where the body [is], there will the eagles be gathered together.` |
