Luke 13:1-25 ▼

1 Now at the same time, some were present, reporting to Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate mixed with their sacrifices.

2 And answering, He said to them, “Do you? think that these Galileans were sinners beyond all the Galileans, because they have suffered these things?

3 No, I say to you?; but unless you? repent, you? will all likewise perish.

4 Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and it killed them: Do you? think that these were debtors beyond all the men dwelling in Jerusalem?

5 No, I say to you?; but unless you? repent, you? will all likewise perish.”

6 And He was speaking this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and he did not find any.

7 And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Behold, for these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree and do not find it. Therefore cut it down! Why does it also render the soil useless?’

8 And answering, he says to him, ‘Sir, leave it this year also, until I may dig around it and put in manure,

9 and if indeed it should make fruit in the time, so be it. But if not, you will cut it down.’”

10 And He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbaths.

11 And behold, a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent over and not able to lift herself up to the full.

12 And having seen her, Jesus called her near and said to her, “Woman, you have been freed from your infirmity.”

13 And He laid the hands on her, and immediately she was set upright and was glorifying God.

14 And answering, the synagogue ruler, indignant because Jesus healed on the Sabbath, was saying to the crowd, “There are six days in which it is necessary to work. Therefore, coming, be healed in these, and not on the day of the Sabbath.”

15 But the Lord answered him and said, “Hypocrites! Does not each one of you? loose his ox or donkey from the stall on the Sabbath, and having led it away, give to it to drink?

16 And this one, being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound, behold, eighteen years, was it not necessary for her to be loosed from this bond on the day of the Sabbath?”

17 And on His saying these things, all those opposed to Him were ashamed; and all the crowd was rejoicing at all the glorious things that were being done by Him.

18 And He was saying, “What is the kingdom of God like? And to what will I liken it?

19 It is like a grain of mustard that a man, having taken, cast into his garden; and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky lodged in its branches.”

20 And again, He said, “To what shall I liken the kingdom of God?

21 It is like leaven that a woman, having taken it, hid in three measures of flour, until it all was leavened.”

22 And He was going through by towns and villages, teaching and making progress toward Jerusalem.

23 And someone said to Him, “Lord, are those being saved few?” And He said to them,

24 “Strive to enter through the narrow door, because many, I say to you?, will seek to enter and will not be able.

25 From that time the master of the house shall have risen up and shall have shut the door, then you? shall begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us.’ And answering, he will say to you?, ‘I do not know from where you? are.’