Worship With Us Sunday School10 AM Sunday Morning11 AM Sunday Evening4 PM Thursday Night7 PM
1377 S 20th St, Louisville, KY 40210 Contact
True Words Baptist Church — Revelation 21:5
BOOK 42 OF 66 · GOSPELS · KING JAMES BIBLE

Luke 17

Luke book home•Chapter 17 of 24•37 verses
Search Luke
Aa  Reading settings
Text size
Reading width
Track chapter:
Chapter overviewAt a glance + deeper study
REVIEWED OVERVIEW

Luke 17 Overview

Jesus warns about offences, commands repeated forgiveness of a repentant brother, and corrects the disciples’ request for increased faith with mustard-seed and servant illustrations. He heals ten lepers, but only one—a Samaritan—returns to give thanks. Asked when the kingdom comes, Jesus teaches about the kingdom in their midst and about the sudden, revealing future days of the Son of man, comparing them with Noah and Lot.

LukeBook
17Chapter
37Verses
GospelsDivision

Before you read Luke 17

Coming from

Luke 16 established the immediate context: Jesus tells the parable of the unjust steward to teach prudent use of temporary resources, warns that no servant can serve God and mammon, and rebukes money-loving Pharisees.

In this chapter

Luke 17 joins community responsibility, humble service, gratitude, present kingdom reality, and future sudden judgment.

Leads into

Luke 18 continues the account: Jesus tells a persistent-widow parable to encourage prayer without fainting and a Pharisee/publican parable exposing self-righteousness.

Key understandingExplore deeper

The servant illustration answers tendencies toward spiritual self-importance: obedience does not put God in our debt.

Kingdom sayings in verses 20–21 have translation/interpretive debate, but the immediate point is that the kingdom is already present in the person and ministry of the King rather than arriving according to the Pharisees’ demanded observation schedule.

Major truths in this chapterExplore deeper

Causing others to stumble is serious

Jesus places heavy responsibility on disciple influence.

Forgiveness may need to be repeated

A repentant brother is to be forgiven again and again.

Faith does not make God our debtor

Obedient servants still recognize dependence on the Master.

Gratitude is not guaranteed by receiving blessing

Nine healed lepers continue on; one Samaritan returns to glorify God.

The Son of man’s day will expose ordinary complacency suddenly

Noah and Lot show people absorbed in normal life until judgment arrives.

Connections to the rest of ScriptureExplore deeper

2 Kings 5

Naaman the Syrian supplies another Old Testament example of a foreign leper receiving cleansing.

Genesis 6–7; 19

Noah and Lot provide Jesus’ judgment analogies.

Matthew 24:37–41

Matthew preserves parallel Noah language in the Olivet Discourse.

Romans 12:3

Paul likewise warns believers not to think of themselves more highly than they ought.

What is clear, and where care is neededExplore deeper

Do not interpret mustard-seed faith as a magical quantity that guarantees any miracle

Jesus is correcting disciple dependence and attitude.

Do not use unprofitable-servant language to deny God’s fatherly delight or promised rewards

The point is that obedience never puts God under debt to us.

Do not turn the Samaritan’s gratitude into the price of his healing or eternal life

He is healed before returning; Jesus commends his faith-filled response.

Read Luke 17 watching for…

Warnings about offending others.

Repeated forgiveness language.

How Jesus answers the request for more faith.

The one leper who returns.

Present and future aspects of kingdom teaching.

Noah and Lot comparisons.

TWBC REVIEW STANDARD

Plain language. Scripture first. Fact distinguished from inference. No filler. No fake certainty. Designed to help you read the Bible itself.

Chapter outline3 sections
1-10Jesus teaches about offenses, forgiveness, faith, and humble service11-19Jesus cleanses ten lepers, and one Samaritan returns to give thanks20-37Jesus teaches about the kingdom of God and the sudden coming of the Son of man
1

Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!

2

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

3

Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

4

And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.

5

And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.

6

And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.

7

But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?

8

And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?

9

Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.

10

So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

11

And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.

12

And as he entered into a certain village, 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.

15

And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,

16

And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.

17

And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?

18

There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.

19

And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.

20

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 observation:

21

Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

22

And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.

23

And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.

24

For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.

25

But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.

26

And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

27

They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

28

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

29

But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

30

Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

31

In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.

32

Remember Lot's wife.

33

Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

34

I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.

35

Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

36

Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

37

And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.

STUDY THIS VERSE

Luke 17:35

Back to verse ↑

Cross References

Cross-reference storage is active. This passage does not yet have curated references loaded.

Related TWBC Resources

The Scripture resource graph is active. Sermons, Bible Overviews, courses, questions, and studies can attach here without changing the Bible text.

My Note

Sign in to keep private notes and personal verse tags.

Sign in →