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New Testament ,
The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ,
According To Luke Chapter 17
1 Offences.
3 We must forgive him that trespasseth against us.
10 We are unprofitable servants.
11 Of ten lepers.
20 Of the coming of the kingdom of heaven.
33 False Christ's.
36 After what manner Christ's coming shall be.
1 Then said he to his disciples, (*) (1) It
cannot be avoided, but that offences will come,
but woe be to him by whom they come.
(*) Matthew 18:7; Mark 9:42 .
(1) The Church is of necessity subject to
offences, but the Lord will not suffer them
unpunished, if any of the least be offended.
2 It is better for him that a great millstone
were hanged about his neck, and that he were
cast into the sea, than that he should (*)
offend one of these little ones.
(*) That is, to turn him back from the
knowledge of God, and his salvation.
3 ¶ (2) Take heed to yourselves; if thy brother
trespass against thee, rebuke him, and if he
repent, forgive him.
(2) Our reprehensions must be just, and
proceed of love and charity.
4 (*) And though he sin against thee () seven
times in a day, and seven times in a day turn
again to thee, saying, It repenteth me, thou
shalt forgive him.
(*) Matthew 18:21 .
() That is, many times; for by a certain number
he meaneth an uncertain.
5 ¶ (3) And the Apostles said unto the Lord,
Increase our faith.
(3) God will never be utterly lacking to the
Godly (although he be not so perfectly with
them, as they would) even in those difficulties,
which cannot be overcome by man's reason.
6 And the Lord said, (*) If ye had faith, as
much as is (a) () a grain of mustard seed, and
should say unto this mulberry tree, () Pluck
thyself up by the roots, and plant thyself in
the sea, it should even obey you.
(*) Matthew 17:20 .
(a) If you had no more faith, but the quantity
of the grain of mustard seed.
() That is, if they had never so little of pure
and perfect faith.
() Meaning, they should do wonderful and
incredible things.
7 ¶ (4) Who is it also of you, that having a
servant plowing or feeding cattle, would say
unto him by and by, when he were come from
the field, Go, and sit down at table?
(4) Seeing that God may challenge unto himself
of right, both us and all that is ours, he can be
debtor unto us for nothing, although we labor
manfully even unto death.
8 And would not rather say to him, (*) Dress
wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and
serve me, till I have eaten and drunken, and
afterward eat thou, and drink thou?
(*) Hereby is declared that it is not enough to
do a piece of our duty for a time, but also we
must continue to the end.
9 Doeth he thank that servant, because he did
that which was commanded unto him? I trow
not.
10 (5) So likewise ye, when ye have done all
those things, which are commanded you, say,
We are (*) unprofitable servants; we have
done that which was our duty to do.
(5) The most perfect keeping of the Law,
which we can perform, deserved no reward.
(*) For God receiveth nothing of us, whereby
he should stand bound unto us.
11 ¶ (6) And so it was when he went to
Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of
Samaria, and Galilee.
(6) Christ doeth well even unto such, as will be
unthankful, but the benefits of God profit them
only to salvation, which are thankful.
12 And as he entered into a certain town,
there met him ten men that were lepers, which
stood afar off.
13 And they lifted up their voices and said,
Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.
14 And when he saw them, he said unto them,
(*) Go, shew yourselves unto the () Priests.
And it came to pass, that as they went, they
were cleansed.
(*) Leviticus 14:2 .
() To whom it did appertain to judge of the
leprosy, Leviticus 14:2; and hereby also the
Priests should have no occasion to grudge or
murmur.
15 Then one of them, when he saw that he
was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice
praised God,
16 And fell down on his face at his feet, and
gave him thanks. And he was a Samaritan.
17 And Jesus answered, and said, Are there
not ten cleansed? But where are the (*) nine?
(*) He noteth hereby their ingratitude, and that
the greatest part neglect the benefits of God.
18 There is none found that returned to give
God praise, save this stranger.
19 And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way,
thy faith hath made thee whole.
20 ¶ (7) And when he was demanded of the
Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should
come, he answered them, and said, The
kingdom of God cometh not (*) with (b)
observation.
(7) The kingdom of God is not marked of
many, although it be most present before their
eyes; because they fondly persuade
themselves, that it is joined with outward
pomp.
(*) It cannot be discerned by any outward
shew, or majesty, whereby it might the rather
be known.
(b) With any outward pomp and shew of
majesty, to be known by; for there were
otherwise many plain and evident tokens
whereby men might have understood, that
Christ was the Messiah, whose kingdom was
so long looked for; but he speaketh in this
place of those signs which the Pharisees
dreamed of, which looked for an earthly
kingdom of Messiah.
21 Neither shall men say, Lo here, or lo there;
for behold, the kingdom of God is (*) () (c)
within you.
(*) Or, among you.
() Either by reason of the word of God, which
is received by faith, or that the Messiah, whom
they sought, as absent, is now present even
within their own doors, and yet they know him
not, John 1:11 .
(c) You look about for Messiah as though he
were absent, but he is amongst you in the
midst of you.
22 (8) And he said unto the disciples, The
days will come, when ye shall desire to
see (d) (*) one of the days of the Son of man,
and ye shall not see it.
(8) We oftentimes neglect those things when
they be present, which we afterward desire
when they are gone, but in vain.
(d) The time will come that you shall seek for
the Son of man, with great sorrow of heart,
and shall not find him.
(*) He speaketh of his first coming into the
world.
23 (*) (9) Then they shall say to you, Behold
here, or behold there; but go not thither,
neither follow them.
(*) Matthew 24:23; Mark 13:21 .
(9) Christ forewarneth us that false Christ's
shall come, and that his glory shall suddenly be
spread far and wide through the world, after
the ignominy of the cross is put out and
extinguished.
24 For as the lightning that lighteneth out of the
one part under heaven, shineth unto the other
part under heaven, so shall the Son of man be
in his (*) day.
(*) Meaning his second coming, wherein he
shall appear in glory.
25 But first must he suffer many things and be
reproved of this generation.
26 (*) (10) And as it was in the () days of
Noah, so shall it be in the days of the Son of
man.
(*) Genesis 7:5; Matthew 24:38; 1 Peter 3:20 .
(10) The world shall be taken unawares with
the sudden judgment of God; and therefore the
faithful ought to watch continually.
() When men contemned the judgment of God,
wherewith they were before menaced.
27 They ate, they drank, they married wives,
and gave in marriage unto the day that Noah
went into the Ark, and the flood came, and
destroyed them all.
28 (*) Likewise also as it was in the days of
Lot; They ate, they drank, they bought, they
sold, they planted, they built.
(*) Genesis 19:24 .
29 But in the day that Lot went out of Sodom,
it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and
destroyed them all.
30 After these examples shall it be in the day
when the Son of man is revealed.
31 (11) At that day he that is upon the (*)
house, and his stuff in the house, let him not
come down to take it out; and he that is in the
field likewise, let him not turn back to that he
left behind.
(11) We must take good heed that neither
distrust, nor the enticements of this world, nor
any respect of friendship hinder us the least
that may be.
(*) We must forget that which we have left
behind us, to the end, that we may the better
follow to heavenly vocation.
32 (*) Remember Lot's wife.
(*) Genesis 19:26 .
33 (*) Whosoever will seek to save his soul,
shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose it, ()
shall (e) get it life.
(*) Luke 9:24; Luke 16:25; Matthew 10:39;
Mark 8:35; John 12:25 .
() This corporal death shall engender life
everlasting.
(e) That is, shall save it, so Matthew
expoundeth it; for the life that is here spoken
of, is everlasting salvation.
34 (*) I tell you, in that night there shall be
two in one () bed; the one shall be received,
and the other shall be left.
(*) Matthew 24:41 .
() He meaneth that no band or conjunction is
so strait that should stay us.
35 Two women shall be grinding together, the
one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
36 Two shall be in the field; one shall be
received, and another shall be left.
37 (12) And they answered, and said to him,
Where, Lord? And he said unto them, (*) ()
Wheresoever the body is, thither shall also the
eagles be gathered together.
(12) The only way to continue is to cleave to
Christ.
(*) Matthew 24:28 .
() Nothing can hinder the faithful to be joined
to their head Jesus Christ; for they shall gather
unto him, as the ravening birds about a carian.
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