Luke 17:7

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

“But which of you, whose slave is plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the field, ‘Come and sit right down to eat’?

Cross References

Matthew 12:11

He answered them, “Which one of you who has [only] one sheep, and it fell in a ditch, would not reach down and lift it out [even] if it were on a Sabbath day?

Luke 13:15

But the Lord answered them, “You hypocrites! Does not every one of you untie his ox or his donkey from its stall and lead it to water on the Sabbath day?

Luke 14:5

Then He said to them, “Which one of you, who has a son or an ox that falls into a well, would not immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?”

Luke 17:26

“And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of man.

Luke 17:6

And the Lord said, “If you had faith as [small as] a mustard tree seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and replanted in the ocean,’ and it would obey you.

Luke 17:8

Would you not say to him instead, ‘Prepare the food for my meal [first] and get ready to serve me until I have had enough to eat and drink and [then] afterward you can eat and drink [yourself]’?