7. If your servant comes in from ploughing or from taking care of the sheep, would you say, “Welcome! Come on in and have something to eat”?
8. No, you wouldn't say that. You would say, “Prepare me something to eat. Get ready to serve me, so I can have my meal. Then later on you can eat and drink.”
9. Servants don't deserve special thanks for doing what they are supposed to do.
10. And that's how it should be with you. When you've done all you should, then say, “We are merely servants, and we have simply done our duty.”
11. On his way to Jerusalem, Jesus went along the border between Samaria and Galilee.