Luke 17:1-19

Complete Jewish Bible

17 Yeshua said to his talmidim, “It is impossible that snares will not be set. But woe to the person who sets them! ² It would be to his advantage that he have a millstone hung around his neck and he be thrown into the sea, rather than that he ensnare one of these little ones. ³ Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. ⁴ Also, if seven times in one day he sins against you, and seven times he comes to you and says, ‘I repent,’ you are to forgive him.” ⁵ The emissaries said to the Lord, “Increase our trust.” ⁶ The Lord replied, “If you had trust as tiny as a mustard seed, you could say to this fig tree, ‘Be uprooted and replanted in the sea!’ and it would obey you. ⁷ If one of you has a slave tending the sheep or plowing, when he comes back from the field, will you say to him, ‘Come along now, sit down and eat’? ⁸ No, you’ll say, ‘Get my supper ready, dress for work, and serve me until I have finished eating and drinking; after that, you may eat and drink.’ ⁹ Does he thank the slave because he did what he was told to do? No! ¹⁰ It’s the same with you — when you have done everything you were told to do, you should be saying, ‘We’re just ordinary slaves, we have only done our duty.’”

¹¹ On his way to Yerushalayim, Yeshua passed along the border country between Shomron and the Galil. ¹² As he entered one of the villages, ten men afflicted with tzara‘at met him. They stood at a distance ¹³ and called out, “Yeshua! Rabbi! Have pity on us!” ¹⁴ On seeing them, he said, “Go and let the cohanim examine you!” And as they went, they were cleansed. ¹⁵ One of them, as soon as he noticed that he had been healed, returned shouting praises to God, ¹⁶ and fell on his face at Yeshua’s feet to thank him. Now he was from Shomron. ¹⁷ Yeshua said, “Weren’t ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? ¹⁸ Was no one found coming back to give glory to God except this foreigner?” ¹⁹ And to the man from Shomron he said, “Get up, you may go; your trust has saved you.”