King James Version · Under Rome
Luke 17
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Then said he unto , It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! 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. Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he , forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I ; thou shalt forgive him. And said unto , Increase our . And said, If ye had as a grain of mustard , ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should you. 7But 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? And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink? 9Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not. 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. And it came to pass, as he went to , that he passed through the midst of and . And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were , which stood afar off: And they lifted up their voices, and said, , Master, have mercy on us. 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. And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified , And fell down on at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a . And answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give to , this . And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy hath made thee whole. And when he was demanded of the , when of should come, he answered them and said, of cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, of is within you. And he said unto , The days will come, when ye shall to see one of the days of , and ye shall not see it. And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them. For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under , shineth unto the other part under ; so shall also be in his day. But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation. And as it was in the days of , so shall it be also in the days of . They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of ; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that went out of it rained and brimstone from , and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when is . 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. Remember ’s wife. Whosoever shall seek to his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. 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. Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 36Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. And they answered and said unto him, Where, ? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
The 1611 translation, public domain. Its original printing included the Apocrypha, which is why the deuterocanonical books can be read here. Notes and cards are EKLI’s own.
The world at this moment · Under Rome, 63 BC to AD 100 ›
Judea as a client kingdom and then a province. Roads, garrisons, taxes, crucifixion, and a common Greek language that let a message travel the empire faster than any before it.
- Rome
- The republic tears itself apart in civil war and comes out as an empire under Augustus. What follows is two centuries of relative peace across the whole Mediterranean, enforced by legions and paid for by taxes, with safe roads and safe sea lanes. Every one of Paul's journeys depends on that.
- Judea
- Governed first through Herod the Great, a client king of enormous ability and enormous brutality who rebuilds the temple into one of the wonders of the ancient world, then directly by Roman prefects. Crucifixion is the standard penalty for sedition and is used often and publicly.
- The wider world
- Greek is spoken from Spain to Syria, which means a letter written in Corinth can be read in Rome without translation. Jewish communities already exist in most major cities, which is where the first Christian preaching lands. Mystery religions, imperial cult, and philosophy all compete in the same marketplace.
- Further afield
- The Han dynasty rules China and trades silk westward along routes that touch the Roman world at second hand. In Britain the Roman conquest begins within a decade of the crucifixion.