THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. LUKE

THE NEW TESTAMENT
TRANSLATED FROM
THE SYRIAC PESHITO VERSION BY JAMES MURDOCK

Chapter 17

(Luk 17:1) And Jesus said to his disciples: It cannot be, but that offences will come: but woe to him, by whom they come.

(Luk 17:2) Better for him were it, if a millstone were suspended to his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

(Luk 17:3) Take heed to yourselves. If thy brother transgress, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

(Luk 17:4) And if he shall offend against thee seven times in a day, and, seven times in a day, shall turn himself to thee, and say, I repent; forgive him.

(Luk 17:5) And the Legates said to our Lord: Increase our faith.

(Luk 17:6) He said to them: If ye had faith like a grain of mustard seed, ye might say to this mulberry-tree, Be thou torn up by the roots, and be thou planted in the sea; and it would obey you.

(Luk 17:7) Which of you, having a servant driving a yoke of oxen, or tending sheep, will say to him when he cometh from the field, Pass on at once, and recline for supper?

(Luk 17:8) But he will say to him: Prepare for me what I may sup upon, and gird thy loins and serve me, until I have eaten and drunken; and afterwards thou shalt eat and drink.

(Luk 17:9) Hath he thanks for him, because the servant did what was commanded him? I think not.

(Luk 17:10) So also ye, when ye have done all the things commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants, for we have done only what we were obligated to do.

(Luk 17:11) And it occurred as Jesus advanced towards Jerusalem, that he passed among the Samaritans into Galilee.

(Luk 17:12) And when he drew near to enter a certain village, there met him ten leprous men; and they stood at a distance,

(Luk 17:13) and raised their voice, and said: Our Rabbi, Jesus, have compassion upon us.

(Luk 17:14) And when he had looked upon them, he said to them: Go, show yourselves to the priests. And as they were going, they were cleansed.

(Luk 17:15) And one of them, when he saw that he was cleansed, returned, and with a loud voice, glorified God.

(Luk 17:16) And he fell on his face, at the feet of Jesus, and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan.

(Luk 17:17) And Jesus answered, and said: Were they not ten who were cleansed? Where are the nine?

(Luk 17:18) Have they so gone as not to come and give glory to God; except this one, who is of another nation ?

(Luk 17:19) And he said to him; Arise, and go: thy faith hath given thee life.

(Luk 17:20) And as [some] of the Pharisees asked him, When the kingdom of God would come; he answered, and said to them: The kingdom of God will not come with observables.

(Luk 17:21) And they will not say: Behold, here it is! or, Behold, it is there! For lo, the kingdom of God is within you

(Luk 17:22) And he said to his disciples: The days will come, when ye will long to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye will not see [them].

(Luk 17:23) And if they shall say to you: Lo, here he is! or, Lo, there he is! go not forth.

(Luk 17:24) For, as the lightning darteth from the heavens, and illuminateth all beneath the heavens; so will the Son of man be, in his day.

(Luk 17:25) But, previously, he is to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this generation.

(Luk 17:26) And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of man.

(Luk 17:27) They ate and drank, they took wives and were given to husbands, until the day that Noah entered the ark; and the flood came, and destroyed every one.

(Luk 17:28) And again, as it was in the days of Lot; they ate and drank, bought and sold, planted and built.

(Luk 17:29) But in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, the Lord rained fire and sulphur from heaven, and destroyed them all.

(Luk 17:30) Thus will it be, in the day when the Son of man shall be revealed.

(Luk 17:31) In that day, let him that is on the house-top, and his goods in the house, not come down to take them: and let him that is in the field, not return [after what is] behind him.

(Luk 17:32) Remember Lot's wife.

(Luk 17:33) He that desireth to preserve his life, will lose it; and he that will lose his life, shall preserve it.

(Luk 17:34) I tell you, that, in that night, two will be in one bed; one will be taken, and the other left.

(Luk 17:35) And two females will be grinding together; one will be taken, and the other left.

(Luk 17:36) Two men will be in the field; one will be taken, and the other left.

(Luk 17:37) They answered, and said to him: Whither, our Lord? He said to them: Where the body is, there will the eagles assemble themselves.