Luke 17:4-13

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!”