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Luke 17

2 Christ teacheth his disciples to avoid occasions of offence, 3 One to forgive another 5 We ought to pray for the increase of faith. 6 He magnifieth the Virtue of faith, 10 And sheweth the unhabilitie of man, 11 Healeth ten lepers, 20 Speaketh of the latter days, and of the end of the world.
1.Then said he to the disciples, *It can not be avoided, but that offences will come, but wo be to him by whom they come.
2.It were better for him that a great millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were cast into the sea, then that he should aoffend one of these little ones.
3.¶ Take heed to your selves: if thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him: and if he repent, forgive him.
4.*And though he sin against thee bseven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, It repenteth me, thou shalt forgive him.
5.¶ And the Apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
6.And the Lord said, *If ye had faith as much as is ca grain of mustard seed, and should say unto this mulberry tree, dpluck thy self up by the roots, and plant thy self in the sea, it should even obey you.
7.¶ Who is it also of you that having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, would say unto him by and by, when he were come from the field, Go, and sit down at table?
8.And would not rather say to him, eDress wherewith I may sup, and gird thy self, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken, and afterward eat thou, and drink thou?
9.Doeth he thank that servant, because he did that which was commanded unto him? I trowe not.
10.So likewise ye, when ye have done all those things, which are commanded you, say, We are funprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
11.¶ And so it was when he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the middes of Samaria and Galile.
12.And as he entered into a certain town, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood a far off.
13.And they lift up their voices and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.
14.And when he saw them, he said unto them, *Go, shewe your selves unto the gPriests. And it came to pass, that as they went, they were cleansed.
15.Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice praised God,
16.And fell down on his face at his feet, and gave him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.
17.And Jesus answered, and said, Are there not ten cleansed? but where are the hnine?
18.There are none found that returned to give God praise, save this stranger.
19.And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way, thy faith hath made thee whole.
20.¶ And when he was demanded of the Pharises, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them, and said, The kingdom of God cometh not iwith observation.
21.Neither shall men say, Lo here, or lo there: for behold the kingdom of God is ^kwithin you.
22.And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see lone of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
23.*Then they shall say to you, Behold here, or behold there: but go not thither, neither follow them.
24.For as the lightening that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven, so shall the Son of man be in his mday.
25.But first must he suffer many things, and be reproved of this generation.
26.*And as it was in the ndays of Noe, so shall it be in the days of the Son of man.
27.They ate, they drank, they married wives, and gave in marriage unto the day that Noe went into the Arke: and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
28.Likewise also, as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built.
29.*But in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30.After these ensamples shall it be in the day when the Son of man shalbe revealed.
31.At that day he that is upon the ohouse, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it out: and he that is in the field likewise, let him not turn back to that he left behind.
32.*Remember Lot’s wife.
33.*Whosoever will seek to save his soul, shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose it, pshall get it life.
34.*I tell you, in that night there shalbe two in one qbed: the one shalbe received, and the other shalbe left.
35.Two women shalbe grinding together: the one shalbe taken, and the other shalbe left.
36.And they answered, and said to him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, *rWheresoever the body is, thither will also the eagles resort.

Notes

1-*.
Mt. 18.7, Mk. 9.42.
2-a.
That is, to turn him back from the knowledge of God, & his salvation.
4-*.
Mt. 18.21.
4-b.
That is, many times: for by a certain number he means an uncertain.
6-*.
Mt. 17.20.
6-c.
That is, if they had never so little of pure and perfect faith.
6-d.
Meaning, they should do wonderful and incredible things.
8-e.
Hereby is declared that it is not enough to do a piece of our duty for a time, but also we must continue to the end.
10-f.
For God receives nothing of us, whereby he should stand bound unto us.
14-*.
Lev. 14.2.
14-g.
To whom it did appertain to judge of the leprosy, Lev. 14.2: and hereby also the Priests should have no occasion to grudge, or murmur.
17-h.
He notes hereby their ingratitude, and that the greatest part neglect the benefits of God.
20-i.
It can not be discerned by any outward show, or majesty, whereby it might the rather be known.
21-^.
Or, among you.
21-k.
Either by reason of the word of God, which is received by faith, or that the Messias whom they sought, as absent, is now present, even within their own doors, and yet they know him not, John 1.11.
22-l.
He speaks of his first coming into the world.
23-*.
Mt. 24.23, Mk. 13.21.
24-m.
Meaning his second coming, wherein he shall appear in glory.
26-*.
Gen. 7.5, Mt. 24.38, 1 Pet. 3.20.
26-n.
When men contemned the judgement of God, wherewith they were before menaced.
29-*.
Gen. 19.24.
31-o.
We must forget that which we have left behind us, to the end, that we may the better follow the heavenly vocation.
32-*.
Gen. 19.26.
33-*.
Ch. 9.24, Mt. 10.39 and 16.25, Mk. 8.35, John 12.25.
33-p.
This corporal death shall engender life everlasting.
34-*.
Mt. 24.41.
34-q.
He means that no band or conjunction is so strait that should stay us. 35 5 Two shalbe in the field: one shalbe received, & another shalbe left.
36-*.
Mt. 24.28.
36-r.
Nothing can hinder the faithful to be joined to their head Jesus Christ: for they shall gather unto him, as the ravening birds about a carrion.