Luke 17:1-17

¹Jesus said to his disciples, “It is inevitable that there should be temptations but sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting!

²It would be good for them if they had been flung into the sea with a millstone around their neck, rather than that they should prove a trap even one of these little ones.

³Be on your guard! If your brother or sister does wrong, rebuke them; but if they repent, forgive them.

⁴Even if they wrong you seven times a day, but turns to you every time and says ‘I am sorry,’ you must forgive them.”

⁵“Give us more faith,” said the apostles to the Master;

⁶but the Master said, “If your faith were only like a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

⁷Which of you, if he had a servant ploughing, or tending the sheep, would say to him, when he came in from the fields, ‘Come at once and take your place at the table,’

⁸Instead of saying ‘Prepare my dinner, and then make yourself ready and serve me while I am eating and drinking, and after that you will eat and drink yourself’?

⁹Does he feel grateful to his servant for doing what he is told?

¹⁰And so with you — when you have done all that you have been told, still say ‘We are but useless servants; we have done no more than we ought to have done.’”

¹¹On the way to Jerusalem Jesus passed between Samaria and Galilee.

¹²As he was entering a village, ten lepers met him.

¹³Standing still, some distance off, they called out loudly, “Jesus! Sir! Pity us!”

¹⁴When Jesus saw them, he said, “Go and show yourselves to the priest.” And, as they were on their way, they were made clean.

¹⁵One of them, finding he was cured, came back, praising God loudly,

¹⁶and threw himself on his face at Jesus' feet, thanking him for what he had done; and this man was a Samaritan.

¹⁷“Were not all the ten made clean? exclaimed Jesus. But the nine — where are they?