Luke 17:1-17

¹Then He said to the disciples: “Things that cause people to fall are bound to come, but woe to him through whom they do come!

²It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to fall.

³Watch out for yourselves: if your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

⁴Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in that day returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

⁵The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

⁶So the Lord said: “If you had faith like a mustard seed has, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

⁷“And which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline to eat’?

⁸Will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare something for me to eat, and gird yourself and serve me until I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink’?

⁹Does he thank that slave because he did the things commanded? I guess not!

¹⁰So likewise you, whenever you have done everything you were told to do, say, ‘We are unworthy slaves, because we have only done what we were supposed to.’ ”

¹¹Now as He was traveling toward Jerusalem, He went along between Samaria and Galilee.

¹²And as He entered a certain village, ten men met Him—being lepers they stood at a distance.

¹³They called out, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”

¹⁴And paying attention He said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” It happened that as they went they were cleansed!

¹⁵Well one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, glorifying God with a loud voice;

¹⁶then he fell on his face at His feet, thanking Him—and he was a Samaritan!

¹⁷So Jesus reacted by saying: “Were not all ten cleansed? So where are the nine?