Luke 17:11-25

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?

¹⁸Were there none to come back and praise God except this foreigner?

¹⁹Get up,” he said to him, “and go on your way. Your faith has delivered you.”

²⁰Being once asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was to come, Jesus answered, “The kingdom of God does not come in a way that can be seen,

²¹nor will people say ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There it is!’; for the kingdom of God is within you!

²²The day will come,” he said to his disciples, “when you will long to see but one of the days of the Son of Man, and will not see it.

²³People will say to you ‘There he is!’ Or ‘Here he is!’ Do not go and follow them.

²⁴For, just as lightning will lighten and flare from one side of the heavens to the other, so will it be with the Son of Man.

²⁵But first he must undergo much suffering, and he must be rejected by the present generation.