6. The Lord said, “If your faith is as big as a mustard seed, then you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Dig yourself up and plant yourself in the sea!’ And the tree will obey you.
7. “Suppose one of you has a servant who has been plowing the ground or caring for the sheep. When the servant comes in from working in the field, would you say, ‘Come in and sit down to eat’?
8. No, you would say to your servant, ‘Prepare something for me to eat. Then get yourself ready and serve me. When I finish eating and drinking, then you can eat and drink.’
9. The servant does not get any special thanks for doing what his master told him to do.
10. It is the same with you. When you do everything you are told to do, you should say, ‘We don’t deserve any special thanks. We have only done the work we should do.’”
11. Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. Traveling from Galilee to Samaria,
12. he came into a small town. Ten men met him there. These men did not come close to Jesus, because they all had a harmful skin disease.
13. But they called to him, “Jesus! Master! Please help us!”
14. When Jesus saw the men, he said, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.”While the ten men were going, they were healed.
15. When one of them saw that he was healed, he went back to Jesus. He praised God in a loud voice.
16. Then he bowed down at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. (This man was a Samaritan.)
17. Jesus asked, “Ten men were healed; where are the other nine?
18. Is this Samaritan the only one who came back to thank God?”