Luke 17

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 He said to his disciples, 'Causes of fal ing are sure to come, but alas for the one through whom theyoccur!	1 And he said to his disciples: It is impossible that scandals should not come: but woe to him through whom they come.
2 It would be better for such a person to be thrown into the sea with a mil stone round the neck than tobe the downfal of a single one of these little ones.	2 It were better for him, that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should scandalize one of these little ones.
3 Keep watch on yourselves! 'If your brother does something wrong, rebuke him and, if he is sorry,forgive him.	3 Take heed to yourselves. If thy brother sin against thee, reprove him: and if he do penance, forgive him.
4 And if he wrongs you seven times a day and seven times comes back to you and says, "I am sorry,"you must forgive him.'	4 And if he sin against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day be converted unto thee, saying, I repent; forgive him.
5 The apostles said to the Lord, 'Increase our faith.'	5 And the apostles said to the Lord: Increase our faith.
6 The Lord replied, 'If you had faith like a mustard seed you could say to this mulberry tree, "Be uprootedand planted in the sea," and it would obey you.	6 And the Lord said: If you had faith like to a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this mulberry tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou transplanted into the sea: and it would obey you.
7 'Which of you, with a servant ploughing or minding sheep, would say to him when he returned from thefields, "Come and have your meal at once"?	7 But which of you having a servant ploughing, or feeding cattle, will say to him, when he is come from the field: Immediately go, sit down to meat:
8 Would he not be more likely to say, "Get my supper ready; fasten your belt and wait on me while I eatand drink. You yourself can eat and drink afterwards"?	8 And will not rather say to him: Make ready my supper, and gird thyself, and serve me, whilst I eat and drink, and afterwards thou shalt eat and drink?
9 Must he be grateful to the servant for doing what he was told?	9 Doth he thank that servant, for doing the things which he commanded him?
10 So with you: when you have done al you have been told to do, say, "We are useless servants: wehave done no more than our duty." '	10 I think not. So you also, when you shall have done all these things that are commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which we ought to do.
11 Now it happened that on the way to Jerusalem he was travel ing in the borderlands of Samaria andGalilee.	11 And it came to pass, as he was going to Jerusalem, he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.
12 As he entered one of the villages, ten men suffering from a virulent skin-disease came to meet him.They stood some way off	12 And as he entered into a certain town, there met him ten men that were lepers, who stood afar off;
13 and cal ed to him, 'Jesus! Master! Take pity on us.'	13 And lifted up their voice, saying: Jesus, master, have mercy on us.
14 When he saw them he said, 'Go and show yourselves to the priests.' Now as they were going awaythey were cleansed.	14 Whom when he saw, he said: Go, shew yourselves to the priests. And it came to pass, as they went, they were made clean.
15 Finding himself cured, one of them turned back praising God at the top of his voice	15 And one of them, when he saw that he was made clean, went back, with a loud voice glorifying God.
16 and threw himself prostrate at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. The man was a Samaritan.	16 And he fell on his face before his feet, giving thanks: and this was a Samaritan.
17 This led Jesus to say, 'Were not al ten made clean? The other nine, where are they?	17 And Jesus answering, said, Were not ten made clean? and where are the nine?
18 It seems that no one has come back to give praise to God, except this foreigner.'	18 There is no one found to return and give glory to God, but this stranger.
19 And he said to the man, 'Stand up and go on your way. Your faith has saved you.'	19 And he said to him: Arise, go thy way; for thy faith hath made thee whole.
20 Asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was to come, he gave them this answer, 'Thecoming of the kingdom of God does not admit of observation	20 And being asked by the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come? he answered them, and said: The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
21 and there will be no one to say, "Look, it is here! Look, it is there!" For look, the kingdom of God isamong you.'	21 Neither shall they say: Behold here, or behold there. For lo, the kingdom of God is within you.
22 He said to the disciples, 'A time wil come when you wil long to see one of the days of the Son ofman and wil not see it.	22 And he said to his disciples: The days will come, when you shall desire to see one day of the Son of man; and you shall not see it.
23 They will say to you, "Look, it is there!" or, "Look, it is here!" Make no move; do not set off in pursuit;	23 And they will say to you: See here, and see there. Go ye not after, nor follow them:
24 for as the lightning flashing from one part of heaven lights up the other, so wil be the Son of manwhen his Day comes.	24 For as the lightening that lighteneth from under heaven, shineth unto the parts that are under heaven, so shall the Son of man be in his day.
25 But first he is destined to suffer grievously and be rejected by this generation.	25 But first he must suffer many things, and be rejected by this generation.
26 'As it was in Noah's day, so wil it also be in the days of the Son of man.	26 And as it came to pass in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27 People were eating and drinking, marrying wives and husbands, right up to the day Noah went intothe ark, and the Flood came and destroyed them all.	27 They did eat and drink, they married wives, and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark: and the flood came and destroyed them all.
28 It wil be the same as it was in Lot's day: people were eating and drinking, buying and selling, plantingand building,	28 Likewise as it came to pass, in the days of Lot: they did eat and drink, they bought and sold, they planted and built.
29 but the day Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and it destroyed them all.	29 And in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 It wil be the same when the day comes for the Son of man to be revealed.	30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man shall be revealed.
31 'When that Day comes, no one on the housetop, with his possessions in the house, must come downto col ect them, nor must anyone in the fields turn back.	31 In that hour, he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and he that shall be in the field, in like manner, let him not return back.
32 Remember Lot's wife.	32 Remember Lot's wife.
33 Anyone who tries to preserve his life wil lose it; and anyone who loses it wil keep it safe.	33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life, shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose it, shall preserve it.
34 I tel you, on that night, when two are in one bed, one wil be taken, the other left;	34 I say to you: in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 when two women are grinding corn together, one wil be taken, the other left.'	35 Two women shall be grinding together: the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left: two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be keft.
36	36 They answering, say to him: Where, Lord?
37 The disciples spoke up and asked, 'Where, Lord?' He said, 'Where the body is, there too will thevultures gather.'	37 Who said to them: Wheresoever the body shall be, thither will the eagles also be gathered together.