Luke 17,18 and 19:27

VII. His Ministry in and around Perea (13:22;19:27)

• The Narrow Door (13:22-30)
• Warning concerning Herod (13:31-35)
• At a Pharisee's House (14:1-23)
• The Cost of Discipleship (14:24-35)
• The Parables of the Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin and the Lost Son (ch. 15)
• The Parable of the Shrewd Manager (16:1-18)
• The Rich Man and Lazarus (16:19-31)
• Miscellaneous Teachings (17:1-10)
• Ten Healed of Leprosy (17:11-19)
• The Coming of the Kingdom (17:20-37)
• The Persistent Widow (18:1-8)
• The Pharisee and the Tax Collector (18:9-14)
• Jesus and the Children (18:15-17)
• The Rich Young Ruler (18:18-30)
• Christ Foretells His Death (18:31-34)
• A Blind Beggar Given His Sight (18:35-43)
• Jesus and Zacchaeus (19:1-10)
• The Parable of the Ten Minas (19:11-27)

Luke 17 NLT

1 One day Jesus said to his disciples, “There will always be temptations to sin, but what sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting! 

2 It would be better to be thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around your neck than to cause one of these little ones to fall into sin. 

3 So watch yourselves! “If another believer sins, rebuke that person; then if there is repentance, forgive.

4 Even if that person wrongs you seven times a day and each time turns again and asks forgiveness, you must forgive.” 

5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Show us how to increase our faith.” 

6 The Lord answered, “If you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘May you be uprooted and thrown into the sea,’ and it would obey you! 

7“When a servant comes in from plowing or taking care of sheep, does his master say, ‘Come in and eat with me’? 

8 No, he says, ‘Prepare my meal, put on your apron, and serve me while I eat. Then you can eat later.’ 

9 And does the master thank the servant for doing what he was told to do? Of course not. 

10 In the same way, when you obey me you should say, ‘We are unworthy servants who have simply done our duty.’” 

11 As Jesus continued on toward Jerusalem, he reached the border between Galilee and Samaria.

12 As he entered a village there, ten lepers stood at a distance, 

13 crying out, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” 

14 He looked at them and said, “Go show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed of their leprosy. 

15 One of them, when he saw that he was healed, came back to Jesus, shouting, “Praise God!” 

16 He fell to the ground at Jesus’ feet, thanking him for what he had done. This man was a Samaritan. 

17 Jesus asked, “Didn’t I heal ten men? Where are the other nine? 

18 Has no one returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?” 

19 And Jesus said to the man, “Stand up and go. Your faith has healed you. ” 

20 One day the Pharisees asked Jesus, “When will the Kingdom of God come?” Jesus replied, “The Kingdom of God can’t be detected by visible signs. 

21 You won’t be able to say, ‘Here it is!’ or ‘It’s over there!’ For the Kingdom of God is already among you. ” 

22 Then he said to his disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see the day when the Son of Man returns, but you won’t see it. 

23 People will tell you, ‘Look, there is the Son of Man,’ or ‘Here he is,’ but don’t go out and follow them. 

24 For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so it will be on the day when the Son of Man comes. 

25 But first the Son of Man must suffer terribly and be rejected by this generation. 

26 “When the Son of Man returns, it will be like it was in Noah’s day. 

27 In those days, the people enjoyed banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat and the flood came and destroyed them all. 

28 “And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot. People went about their daily business—eating and drinking, buying and selling, farming and building— 

29 until the morning Lot left Sodom. Then fire and burning sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. 

30 Yes, it will be ‘business as usual’ right up to the day when the Son of Man is revealed. 

31 On that day a person out on the deck of a roof must not go down into the house to pack. A person out in the field must not return home.

32 Remember what happened to Lot’s wife! 

33 If you cling to your life, you will lose it, and if you let your life go, you will save it. 

34 That night two people will be asleep in one bed; one will be taken, the other left. 

35 Two women will be grinding flour together at the mill; one will be taken, the other left. ” 

36 

37“Where will this happen, Lord?” the disciples asked. Jesus replied, “Just as the gathering of vultures shows there is a carcass nearby, so these signs indicate that the end is near.”

Luke 18 NLT

1 One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up. 

2 “There was a judge in a certain city,” he said, “who neither feared God nor cared about people. 

3 A widow of that city came to him repeatedly, saying, ‘Give me justice in this dispute with my enemy.’ 

4The judge ignored her for a while, but finally he said to himself, ‘I don’t fear God or care about people, 

5 but this woman is driving me crazy. I’m going to see that she gets justice, because she is wearing me out with her constant requests!’” 

6 Then the Lord said, “Learn a lesson from this unjust judge. 

7Even he rendered a just decision in the end. So don’t you think God will surely give justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? 

8 I tell you, he will grant justice to them quickly! But when the Son of Man returns, how many will he find on the earth who have faith?” 

9 Then Jesus told this story to some who had great confidence in their own righteousness and scorned everyone else: 

10 “Two men went to the Temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, and the other was a despised tax collector. 

11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed this prayer : ‘I thank you, God, that I am not a sinner like everyone else. For I don’t cheat, I don’t sin, and I don’t commit adultery. I’m certainly not like that tax collector! 

12 I fast twice a week, and I give you a tenth of my income.’ 

13 “But the tax collector stood at a distance and dared not even lift his eyes to heaven as he prayed. Instead, he beat his chest in sorrow, saying, ‘O God, be merciful to me, for I am a sinner.’ 

14 I tell you, this sinner, not the Pharisee, returned home justified before God. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.” 

15 One day some parents brought their little children to Jesus so he could touch and bless them. But when the disciples saw this, they scolded the parents for bothering him.

16 Then Jesus called for the children and said to the disciples, “Let the children come to me. Don’t stop them! For the Kingdom of God belongs to those who are like these children. 

17 I tell you the truth, anyone who doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.” 

18 Once a religious leader asked Jesus this question: “Good Teacher, what should I do to inherit eternal life?” 

19 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus asked him. “Only God is truly good. 

20 But to answer your question, you know the commandments: ‘You must not commit adultery. You must not murder. You must not steal. You must not testify falsely. Honor your father and mother.’ ”

21 The man replied, “I’ve obeyed all these commandments since I was young.” 

22 When Jesus heard his answer, he said, “There is still one thing you haven’t done. Sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” 

23 But when the man heard this he became very sad, for he was very rich. 

24 When Jesus saw this, he said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the Kingdom of God! 

25 In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!” 

26 Those who heard this said, “Then who in the world can be saved?” 

27 He replied, “What is impossible for people is possible with God.” 

28 Peter said, “We’ve left our homes to follow you.” 

29 “Yes,” Jesus replied, “and I assure you that everyone who has given up house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the Kingdom of God, 

30 will be repaid many times over in this life, and will have eternal life in the world to come.” 

31 Taking the twelve disciples aside, Jesus said, “Listen, we’re going up to Jerusalem, where all the predictions of the prophets concerning the Son of Man will come true. 

32He will be handed over to the Romans, and he will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit upon. 

33 They will flog him with a whip and kill him, but on the third day he will rise again.” 

34 But they didn’t understand any of this. The significance of his words was hidden from them, and they failed to grasp what he was talking about. 

35 As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind beggar was sitting beside the road. 

36 When he heard the noise of a crowd going past, he asked what was happening. 

37 They told him that Jesus the Nazarene was going by. 

38 So he began shouting, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” 

39 “Be quiet!” the people in front yelled at him. But he only shouted louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” 

40 When Jesus heard him, he stopped and ordered that the man be brought to him. As the man came near, Jesus asked him, 

41 “What do you want me to do for you?” “Lord,” he said, “I want to see!” 

42 And Jesus said, “All right, receive your sight! Your faith has healed you.” 

43 Instantly the man could see, and he followed Jesus, praising God. And all who saw it praised God, too.

Luke 19 NLT

1 Jesus entered Jericho and made his way through the town. 

2 There was a man there named Zacchaeus. He was the chief tax collector in the region, and he had become very rich. 

3 He tried to get a look at Jesus, but he was too short to see over the crowd. 

4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree beside the road, for Jesus was going to pass that way. 

5 When Jesus came by, he looked up at Zacchaeus and called him by name. “Zacchaeus!” he said. “Quick, come down! I must be a guest in your home today.” 

6Zacchaeus quickly climbed down and took Jesus to his house in great excitement and joy. 

7 But the people were displeased. “He has gone to be the guest of a notorious sinner,” they grumbled. 

8 Meanwhile, Zacchaeus stood before the Lord and said, “I will give half my wealth to the poor, Lord, and if I have cheated people on their taxes, I will give them back four times as much!” 

9 Jesus responded, “Salvation has come to this home today, for this man has shown himself to be a true son of Abraham. 

10 For the Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost.” 

11 The crowd was listening to everything Jesus said. And because he was nearing Jerusalem, he told them a story to correct the impression that the Kingdom of God would begin right away. 

12 He said, “A nobleman was called away to a distant empire to be crowned king and then return. 

13 Before he left, he called together ten of his servants and divided among them ten pounds of silver, saying, ‘Invest this for me while I am gone.’ 

14 But his people hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want him to be our king.’ 

15 “After he was crowned king, he returned and called in the servants to whom he had given the money. He wanted to find out what their profits were. 

16 The first servant reported, ‘Master, I invested your money and made ten times the original amount!’ 

17“‘Well done!’ the king exclaimed. ‘You are a good servant. You have been faithful with the little I entrusted to you, so you will be governor of ten cities as your reward.’ 

18 “The next servant reported, ‘Master, I invested your money and made five times the original amount.’ 

19 “‘Well done!’ the king said. ‘You will be governor over five cities.’ 

20 “But the third servant brought back only the original amount of money and said, ‘Master, I hid your money and kept it safe. 

21 I was afraid because you are a hard man to deal with, taking what isn’t yours and harvesting crops you didn’t plant.’ 

22 “‘You wicked servant!’ the king roared. ‘Your own words condemn you. If you knew that I’m a hard man who takes what is

23 why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank? At least I could have gotten some interest on it.’ 

24 “Then, turning to the others standing nearby, the king ordered, ‘Take the money from this servant, and give it to the one who has ten pounds.’ 

25 “‘But, master,’ they said, ‘he already has ten pounds!’ 

26 “‘Yes,’ the king replied, ‘and to those who use well what they are given, even more will be given. But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away. 

27 And as for these enemies of mine who didn’t want me to be their king—bring them in and execute them right here in front of me.’”