12. As he entered a village there, ten lepers stood at a distance,
13. crying out, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”
14. He looked at them and said, “Go show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed of their leprosy.
15. One of them, when he saw that he was healed, came back to Jesus, shouting, “Praise God!”
16. He fell to the ground at Jesus’ feet, thanking him for what he had done. This man was a Samaritan.
17. Jesus asked, “Didn’t I heal ten men? Where are the other nine?
18. Has no one returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?”
19. And Jesus said to the man, “Stand up and go. Your faith has healed you.”
20. One day the Pharisees asked Jesus, “When will the Kingdom of God come?”Jesus replied, “The Kingdom of God can’t be detected by visible signs.
21. You won’t be able to say, ‘Here it is!’ or ‘It’s over there!’ For the Kingdom of God is already among you.”
22. Then he said to his disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see the day when the Son of Man returns, but you won’t see it.
23. People will tell you, ‘Look, there is the Son of Man,’ or ‘Here he is,’ but don’t go out and follow them.
24. For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so it will be on the day when the Son of Man comes.
25. But first the Son of Man must suffer terribly and be rejected by this generation.
26. “When the Son of Man returns, it will be like it was in Noah’s day.
27. In those days, the people enjoyed banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat and the flood came and destroyed them all.