Were there none to come back and praise God except this foreigner?
But many who are first now will then be last, and those who are last will be first.
So those who are last will be first, and the first last."
Jesus was surprised to hear this, and said to those who were following him: "Never I tell you, in any Israelite have I met with such faith as this!
While the heirs to the Kingdom will be 'banished into the darkness' outside; there, there will be weeping and grinding of teeth."
When the crowd saw this, they were awe-struck, and praised God for giving such power to men.
"Were not all the ten made clean? exclaimed Jesus. But the nine--where are they?
and he cried in a loud voice-- 'Reverence God, and give him praise (for the hour of his Judgment has come) and worship him who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all springs of water.'