Luke - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 1129

» 17,,I I I X Xl I2 16 18 2X 22 26 28 kand destroed th Uuraizful [ Eb: gspas. ggyem all. Sa will As He wasjourneying qu the yvay_t0 ¤¢_ __¤p0p the dgy _iu {biol! the Son jerusalem, He passed through the confines cf Samaria and Galilee ; and when about to enter one village, He was met by ten leprous men, who, standing at a distance, shouted with jesus, Master, have pity upon us ! When looking upon them, He said, ‘ Go, show yourselves to the priests. And it came about that as they were going, they were cured. And one of them, perceiving that he

was cured, turned back, praising God with a loud voice; and, prostrating himself at the feet of Eesus, he re- lturned Him thanks. T is man was a Samaritan. asked

but the nine, where are they? Have none been found returning to thank God, except this foreigner ?’ Arise and depart; your faith has saved you? Ganrzrniug ibn §ingh¤m. Being now furtherquestioned bythe

Pharisees respecting the time when the Kingdom of God would come, He The Kingdom of God will not come in the way you imagine ; neither can they say, ‘ Look here l ‘ or ‘ There ' ; for see l the King- dom of God exists within yourselves. Qrzmnititnrn Signs. And to His disciples He said:

‘ The time will come when you shall long to see one of the days of the Son of Man ; and you shall not see it. And they shall shout to you, ‘ Look here! ‘ Look yonder! ’ Neither go, however, nor follow after; for just as the lightning flashes from the high heaven to the high heaven, so will the Son of Man be in His own day. But, in the first place, He has much to endure; yes, to be rejected, by this generation. And, as it happened in the time of Noah, even so will it also bein the period of the Son of Man. They were eating they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being betrothed, until the day arrived for Noah to enter the Ark; then the Deluge came, and destroyed them all. So likewise was it in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, theywere buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; but whenthe day came for Lot to depart from Sodom, nre and brimstone rained from the ot Man is revealed. In that day, 31 whoever may be upon the balcony, let him not descendinto his houseto clear out his furniture: and let not the one who is in the Held return Whoever attempts to preserve his 33 life shall lose it; but whoever does lose it shall preserve it. In that night, let 34 Me tell you, there shall be two men in one bed ; theonewill be taken, and the other left. Two women will be grind- 35 ing together; the one will be taken, and the other left. Two may bein the field; 36 the one will be taken and the other Then, in reply to Him, they asked, He an-

there too the vultures will be found assembled. Wn Quintet Qnhyz. He also showed them, by means of a

parable, that they ought to persist in He said,

a judge, who neither feared God,

nor respected man And in the same town there was a widow, who kept coming to Him, pleading, ‘Give me justice against my adversary} He re- fused, however, for some time. But afterwards he argued thus with him- self: Although I neither fear God, nor care for man, yet, because this widow gives me trouble, I will grant her justice; for if I do not, she will distract me at last by her coming.°' said the Master,

‘ what the unjust judge determined. And will not God grant justice to His chosen, who cry to Him day and htand h them? ni , ave pity upon He will, I tell you, grant them justice very quickly. When the Son of Man comes, however, will I-Ie find this faith upon the earth ? 37 18 whe §l;ari¤ez nah the Wnefarntzr at Qrngzr. He then addssed this arabl repe to some who were confident 0 their own righteousness, and despised the rest: ‘Two men went up to the temple

to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax·farmer. The Pharisee, standing by himself, grayed thus: O God,} thank Thee t at I em not like the rest of mankind-—-greedy, unjust, pronigate; nor even like this lI29 I0 II