Don't Cause Sin and Be Ready to Forgive

¹⁷Jesus said, "Ten men were healed; where are the other nine? ¹⁸This man is not even a Jew! Is he the only one that came back to give praise to God?" ¹⁹Then Jesus said to the man, "Stand up! You can go. You were healed because you believed."

God's Kingdom Is Inside You

²⁰Some of the Pharisees* asked Jesus, "When will the kingdom of God come?" Jesus answered, "God's kingdom is coming, but not in a way that you will be able to see with your eyes. ²¹People will not say, 'Look, God's kingdom is here!' Or, 'There it is!' No, God's kingdom is inside you." ²²Then Jesus said to his followers, "The time will come when you will want very much to see one of the days of the Son of Man,* but you will not be able. ²³People will say to you, 'Look, there it is!' or, 'Look, here it is!' Stay where you are; don't go away and search.

When Jesus Comes Again

²⁴"[You will know it] when the Son of Man* comes again. On the day when he comes he will shine like lightning flashes across the sky. ²⁵But first, the Son of Man must suffer many things and be killed by the people of this time. ²⁶It will be the same when the Son of Man comes again as it was when Noah lived. ²⁷In the time of Noah, people were eating, drinking, and getting married even on the day when Noah entered the boat. Then the flood came and killed all the people. ²⁸It will be the same as during the time of Lot when God destroyed Sodom.* Those people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, and building houses for themselves. ²⁹The people were doing these things even on the day when Lot left town. Then fire rained down from the sky and killed them all. ³⁰This is exactly how it will be when the Son of Man comes again. ³¹"On that day, if a man is on his roof, he will not have time to go inside and get his things. If a man is in the field, he cannot go back home. ³²Remember what happened to Lot's wife*? ³³The person that tries to save his life will lose it. But the person that gives his life away will save it. ³⁴At the time when I come again, there may be two people sleeping in one room. One person will be taken and the other person will be left. ³⁵There may be two women working together. One woman will be taken and the other woman will be left." ³⁶* ³⁷The followers asked Jesus, "Where will this be, Lord?" Jesus answered, "People can always find a dead body by looking for the vultures.*"

Pharisees The Pharisees were a Jewish religious group that claimed to follow carefully all Jewish laws and customs. Son of Man A name Jesus used for himself. In Dan. 7:13-14, this is the name for the Messiah, the one God chose to save his people. Sodom A town where very bad people lived. God punished them by destroying their city. Lot's wife The story about what happened to Lot's wife is found in Gen. 19:15-17, 26. Verse 36 A few Greek copies of Luke add verse 36: "Two men will be in the same field. One man will be taken, but the other man will be left behind." vultures Or, "eagles"--birds that eat dead animals.