Глава 17

  • 1. And he said unto the disciples, `It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, but wo `to him' through whom they come;
  • 2. it is more profitable to him if a weighty millstone is put round about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea, than that he may cause one of these little ones to stumble.
  • 3. `Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him,
  • 4. and if seven times in the day he may sin against thee, and seven times in the day may turn back to thee, saying, I reform; thou shalt forgive him.'
  • 5. And the apostles said to the Lord, `Add to us faith;'
  • 6. and the Lord said, `If ye had faith as a grain of mustard, ye would have said to this sycamine, Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea, and it would have obeyed you.
  • 7. `But, who is he of you -- having a servant ploughing or feeding -- who, to him having come in out of the field, will say, Having come near, recline at meat?
  • 8. but will not `rather' say to him, Prepare what I may sup, and having girded thyself about, minister to me, till I eat and drink, and after these things thou shalt eat and drink?
  • 9. Hath he favour to that servant because he did the things directed? I think not.
  • 10. `So also ye, when ye may have done all the things directed you, say -- We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do -- we have done.'
  • 11. And it came to pass, in his going on to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee,
  • 12. and he entering into a certain village, there met him ten leprous men, who stood afar off,
  • 13. and they lifted up the voice, saying, `Jesus, master, deal kindly with us;'
  • 14. and having seen `them', he said to them, `Having gone on, shew yourselves to the priests;' and it came to pass, in their going, they were cleansed,
  • 15. and one of them having seen that he was healed did turn back, with a loud voice glorifying God,
  • 16. and he fell upon `his' face at his feet, giving thanks to him, and he was a Samaritan.
  • 17. And Jesus answering said, `Were not the ten cleansed, and the nine -- where?
  • 18. There were not found who did turn back to give glory to God, except this alien;'
  • 19. and he said to him, `Having risen, be going on, thy faith hath saved thee.'
  • 20. And having been questioned by the Pharisees, when the reign of God doth come, he answered them, and said, `The reign of God doth not come with observation;
  • 21. nor shall they say, Lo, here; or lo, there; for lo, the reign of God is within you.'
  • 22. And he said unto his disciples, `Days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and ye shall not behold `it';
  • 23. and they shall say to you, Lo, here; or lo, there; ye may not go away, nor follow;
  • 24. for as the lightning that is lightening out of the one `part' under heaven, to the other part under heaven doth shine, so shall be also the Son of Man in his day;
  • 25. and first it behoveth him to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this generation.
  • 26. `And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man;
  • 27. they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all;
  • 28. in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;
  • 29. and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.
  • 30. `According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed;
  • 31. in that day, he who shall be on the house top, and his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and he in the field, in like manner, let him not turn backward;
  • 32. remember the wife of Lot.
  • 33. Whoever may seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever may lose it, shall preserve it.
  • 34. `I say to you, In that night, there shall be two men on one couch, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;
  • 35. two women shall be grinding at the same place together, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;
  • 36. two men shall be in the field, the one shall be taken, and the other left.'
  • 37. And they answering say to him, `Where, sir?' and he said to them, `Where the body `is', there will the eagles be gathered together.'