Part 28

016:025 "`Remember, my child,' said Abraham, `that you had all your good things during your lifetime, and that Lazarus in like manner had his bad things. But, now and here, he is receiving consolation and you are in agony.

016:026 And, besides all this, a vast chasm is immovably fixed between us and you, put there in order that those who desire to cross from this side to you may not be able, nor any be able to cross over from your side to us.'

016:027 "`I entreat you then, father,' said he, `to send him to my father's house.

016:028 For I have five brothers. Let him earnestly warn them, lest they also come to this place of torment.'

016:029 "`They have Moses and the Prophets,' replied Abraham; `let them hear them.'

016:030 "`No, father Abraham,' he pleaded; `but if some one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'

016:031 "`If they are deaf to Moses and the Prophets,' replied Abraham, `they would not be led to believe even if some one should rise from the dead.'"

017:001 Jesus said to His disciples, "It is inevitable that causes of stumbling should come; but alas for him through whom they come!

017:002 It would be well for him if, with a millstone round his neck, he were lying at the bottom of the sea, rather than that he should cause even one of these little ones to fall.

017:003 Be on your guard. "If your brother acts wrongly, reprove him; and if he is sorry, forgive him;

017:004 and if seven times in a day he acts wrongly towards you, and seven times turns again to you and says, `I am sorry,' you must forgive him."

017:005 And the Apostles said to the Lord, "Give us faith."

017:006 "If your faith," replied the Lord, "is like a mustard seed, you might command this black-mulberry-tree, `Tear up your roots and plant yourself in the sea,' and instantly it would obey you.

017:007 But which of you who has a servant ploughing, or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the farm, `Come at once and take your place at table,'

017:008 and will not rather say to him, `Get my dinner ready, make yourself tidy, and wait upon me till I have finished my dinner, and then you shall have yours'?

017:009 Does he thank the servant for obeying his orders?

017:010 So you also, when you have obeyed all the orders given you, must say, "`There is no merit in our service: what we have done is only what we were in duty bound to do.'"

017:011 As they pursued their journey to Jerusalem, He passed through Samaria and Galilee.

017:012 And as He entered a certain village, ten men met Him who were lepers and stood at a distance.

017:013 In loud voices they cried out, "Jesus, Rabbi, take pity on us."

017:014 Perceiving this, He said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the Priests." And while on their way to do this they were made clean.

017:015 One of them, seeing that he was cured, came back, adoring and praising God in a loud voice,

017:016 and he threw himself at the feet of Jesus, thanking Him. He was a Samaritan.

017:017 "Were not all ten made clean?" Jesus asked; "but where are the nine?

017:018 Have none been found to come back and give glory to God except this foreigner?"

017:019 And He said to him, "Rise and go: your faith has cured you."

017:020 Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God was coming, He answered, "The Kingdom of God does not so come that you can stealthily watch for it.

017:021 Nor will they say, `See here!' or `See there!'--for the Kingdom of God is within you."