Luke 17 Bible study: Where are the nine?

Jesus says to the disciples, "It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!" (17:1) (tap occasions). "It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble." (17:2). He doesn't explain the saying beyond his words, and these notes don't either. Favor's Matthew 18 asks who these little ones are, in a saying like this one, and doesn't answer beyond the words. Then: "Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him." (17:3) (tap rebuke, repent, forgive), and "If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him." (17:4). Mark gives a saying like 17:2 in another setting (Mark 9:42), and Matthew gives sayings like 17:1-4 in another setting (Matthew 18:6-7, 18:15, 18:21-22). Favor's Mark 9 teaches Mark's saying, and Favor's Matthew 18 names Luke's sayings in its go-deeper Beside Mark and Luke. These notes don't repeat them, and don't merge the sayings or explain where they differ. Nothing here is applied to anyone's own conflict or hurt.

Genesis 7:7→leads toLuke 17:26-27

“Noah went into the ship” (7:7). Jesus points to that day: “As it was in the days of Noah, even so it will also be in the days of the Son of Man. They ate, they drank, they married, and they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came and destroyed them all” (Luke 17:26-27).

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Strong's: "to turn under (behind), i.e. to return (literally or figuratively)". Thayer lists 17:18 under "to turn back i. e. to return". "One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice." (17:15). Jesus asks, "Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?" (17:18). In the Greek, turned back and returned are this one verb. Here is what almost everyone misses: in RP2018, the Greek text the WEB translates, it is also the verb of "The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God" (2:20), and glorifying there is the same verb as glorifying in 17:15. The New Testament has this verb 37 times (counted in RP2018): 22 in Luke, once in Mark, and none in Matthew or John. The returns of 17:4 and the turn back of 17:31 are another verb.