8. Of course not! Instead, you say to him, ‘Get my supper ready, then put on your apron and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may have your meal.’
9. The servant does not deserve thanks for obeying orders, does he?
10. It is the same with you; when you have done all you have been told to do, say, ‘We are ordinary servants; we have only done our duty.’ ”
11. As Jesus made his way to Jerusalem, he went along the border between Samaria and Galilee.
12. He was going into a village when he was met by ten men suffering from a dreaded skin disease. They stood at a distance
13. and shouted, “Jesus! Master! Take pity on us!”
14. Jesus saw them and said to them, “Go and let the priests examine you.”On the way they were made clean.
15. When one of them saw that he was healed, he came back, praising God in a loud voice.
16. He threw himself to the ground at Jesus' feet and thanked him. The man was a Samaritan.
17. Jesus said, “There were ten men 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.