Luke 17 Kingdom". Jesus replies that the Kingdom of God does not come "with observation" or "with a visible display": the word ("paratērēseōs", careful observation) appears only here in the New Testament. Luke 17 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 composed this Gospel as well as the Acts of the Apostles. The New King James Version organises this chapter as follows:
Matthew 27:12 notably Mark makes no mention of any replay by Jesus, and Jesus' silence can be presumed. Matthew makes it explicit that Jesus says nothing when confronted. Luke also has a version of this exchange at . Luke's version lists several specific charges made by the priests. The silence of Jesus when faced with the accusations have been linked by many scholars to the Suffering Servant of Isaiah, and more generally to Jesus' philosophy of meekness. Matthew 27:12 Matthew 27:12 is the twelfth verse of the twenty-seventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. This continues Pilate's Court,