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"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.
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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,'
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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'?
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Does he thank the servant for obeying his orders?
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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.'"
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As they pursued their journey to Jerusalem, He passed through Samaria and Galilee.
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And as He entered a certain village, ten men met Him who were lepers and stood at a distance.
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In loud voices they cried out, "Jesus, Rabbi, take pity on us."
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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.
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One of them, seeing that he was cured, came back, adoring and praising God in a loud voice,
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and he threw himself at the feet of Jesus, thanking Him. He was a Samaritan.