Chapter 34
The Coming of the Kingdom
Verse 1: Once Jesus was asked by one of the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was to come, and he replied, “The kingdom of my Father is not coming with signs that can be observed, | Luke 17:20
2 nor will they say, ‘Look, there it is!’ or ‘Look, here it is!’ For you see, his kingdom is within you.” | Luke 17:21
3 Then he said to his disciples, “The time is coming when you shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you shall not see it. | Luke 17:22
4 They will say to you, ‘Look here!’ or ‘Look there!’ Do not run out and follow them. | Luke 17:23
5 For just as the lightning flashes and which lights up the sky from one end to the other, so shall the Son of Man be in your last day. | Luke 17:24
6 But first he will endure much suffering and be rejected by the temple authorities. | Luke 17:25
7 But of that final moment when your spirit leaves this body, no one knows the hour, not the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only my Father. | Matthew 24:36
8 And as it was in the days of Noah when he was building his ark, so, too, it will be in your last days. | Luke 17:26
9 For as in the days before the flood, people were cheerfully eating and drinking, being married and giving in marriage, until the very day that Noah entered the ark, | Matthew 24:38
10 and they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away, so, too, will be your passage; if you love the world, you will not see life. | Matthew 24:39
11 The same was true in the days of Lot, many were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting and building, | Luke 17:28
12 but on the fateful day that Lot fled Sodom it rained fire and sulfur from the skies and destroyed all of them; | Luke 17:29
13 and it shall be the same on the very last day that the Son of Man is revealed to them. | Luke 17:30
14 On that day, anyone on the roof who has their belongings in the house must not go down to get them, nor again anyone in the field must not return back. | Luke 17:31
15 Take heed! Remember Lot’s wife. | Luke 17:32
16 Whosoever seeks to preserve their life will lose it, but whosoever loses their life for my sake will keep it. | Luke 17:33
17 This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away, but my words will not pass away. The dead are not alive, and the living will not die. In the days when you consumed what is dead, | Gospel of Thomas 11
18 you made it what is alive. When you come to dwell in the light, what will you do? On the day when you were one you became two. But when you become two, what will you do? | Gospel of Thomas 11
19 I tell you, at that night there will be two in one bed; one shall be taken to judgement and the other left behind. | Luke 17:34
20 There will be two in the field; one shall be taken to judgement, and one will be left behind. | Matthew 24:40
21 Two women will be grinding meal; one shall be taken to judgement, and one will be left behind. | Matthew 24:41
22 Therefore you must keep watch, as you do not know on which hour your day ends. | Matthew 24:42
23 But know this: if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, then he would have stayed awake and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. | Matthew 24:43
24 Be on your guard so that your hearts are not dulled or weighed down with decadence and drunkenness and the worries of daily life and that day does not come upon you suddenly like a trap. | Luke 21:34
25 For it will come to all those who live upon the face of the whole earth. | Luke 21:35
26 Fortunate is the man who knows where the robbers will enter, so that he can prepare, fortify his domain, and arm himself before they enter. | Gospel of Thomas 103
27 Be alert at all times, toiling for your neighbor so that you may have the strength to escape the outer darkness and to stand in the light before the Son of Man.” | Luke 21:36
28 Then they asked him, “Where is it, Lord?” He replied, “Where the corpse is, there also the vultures will gather.” | Luke 17:37
The Parable of the Widow and the Unjust Judge
29 Then Jesus told them a parable to show them they should always to pray always and never despair. | Luke 18:1
30 He said, “In a city, there was this judge who neither feared God nor respected the people. | Luke 18:2
31 and there was a widow that kept coming to him and appealing, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’ | Luke 18:3
32 For a some time he refused, but later he asked himself, ‘Though I have no fear of God, nor respect anyone, | Luke 18:4
33 yet because this widow has good standing in her community for her good works, I will grant her justice, or in the end she will wear me out by her unending pleas.’” | Luke 18:5
34 And the Lord said, “Hear those words of the unjust judge. | Luke 18:6
35 And will not my Father grant justice to those ones who toil for him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them? | Luke 18:7
36 I tell you, he will grant justice to them quickly! And yet, when you come to the Son of Man, will I find such faith?” | Luke 18:8
The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector
37 He also told this parable to some where confident in adherence to their law that they were righteous and regarded everyone else with contempt: | Luke 18:9
38 “Two men went to the temple to pray, one was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector. | Luke 18:10
39 The Pharisee, stood by himself and praying said, ‘My God! I give thanks to you that I am not like other people: thieves, bandits, adulterers, outcasts or even like this tax collector. | Luke 18:11
40 I fast twice a week; I always study the law; I am at all the festivals; I give a tenth of all my income to the temple.’ | Luke 18:12
41 But the tax collector, standing far away, would not even lift up his eyes upward towards heaven but said, ‘God, help me look after those in need!’ | Luke 18:13
42 I tell you, this man went down to his house redeemed rather than the other, for everyone who exalt themselves will be humbled, but the one who humbles themselves to help others will be exalted.” | Luke 18:14
43 Now when Jesus had finished saying all these things, he left Galilee and departed to the region of Judea on the other side of the Jordan. | Matthew 19:1
44 Great crowds followed him, and he healed them there. | Matthew 19:2