Luke 17:17-27

17 Jesus spoke up, "There were ten who were healed; where are the other nine?
18 Why is this foreigner the only one who came back to give thanks to God?"
19 And Jesus said to him, "Get up and go; your faith has made you well."
20 Some Pharisees asked Jesus when the Kingdom of God would come. His answer was, "The Kingdom of God does not come in such a way as to be seen.
21 No one will say, "Look, here it is!' or, "There it is!'; because the Kingdom of God is within you."
22 Then he said to the disciples, "The time will come when you will wish you could see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.
23 There will be those who will say to you, "Look, over there!' or, "Look, over here!' But don't go out looking for it.
24 As the lightning flashes across the sky and lights it up from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.
25 But first he must suffer much and be rejected by the people of this day.
26 As it was in the time of Noah so shall it be in the days of the Son of Man. 1
27 Everybody kept on eating and drinking, and men and women married, up to the very day Noah went into the boat and the flood came and killed them all. 2

Cross References 2

  • 1. 17.26Genesis 6.5-8.
  • 2. 17.27Genesis 7.6-24.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. within you; [or] among you, [or] will suddenly appear among you.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.