Luke 17 is the seventeenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the teachings of Jesus Christ and the healing of ten lepers. The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke the Evangelist composed this Gospel as well as the Acts of the Apostles. The New King James Version divides this chapter into four sections, headed respectively "Jesus Warns of Offences" (verses 1–4), "Faith and Duty" (verses 5–10), "Ten Lepers Cleansed" (verses 11–19) and "The Coming of the Kingdom" (verses 20–37). Commenting on the variety of topics covered in the first ten verses, Lutheran biblical writer Harold Buls states that he "assumes that there is logical sequence. The items are not merely picked or chosen by Luke from some outside source". Text The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 37 verses. Textual witnesses Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are: Papyrus 75 (175–225) Papyrus 111 (3rd-century) Codex Vaticanus (325–350) Codex Sinaiticus (330–360) Codex Bezae (~400) Codex Washingtonianus (~400) Codex Alexandrinus (400–440). Offences and forgiving of offences (17:1–10) Verses 1–10 are presented as a single unit in the New International Version. Verse 1 Then He [Jesus] said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no offenses should come, but woe to him through whom they do come!" Jesus warns of "offences" coming, literally "stumbling blocks" (, skandala). Other translations used are "obstacles" (Jerusalem Bible), "things that cause people to sin" (Buls) and "temptations to sin" (English Standard Version). Reflecting on Jesus' assertion that something might be "impossible", Lutheran Pietist Johann Bengel offers as alternative readings, "it is not a thing usual to happen" or "a thing not admissible in the common course of things", noting similarly that at Jesus had said that "it is impossible for a prophet to be killed outside of Jerusalem". Verse 2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. The "little ones" are the more vulnerable members of the community of disciples. The terms appears more frequently in Matthew's gospel than in Luke's. Verses 3b–4 If your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. And if he sins against you seven times in