Luke 13

¹ Now there were some present, on the same occasion, reporting to Him concerning the Galileans whose blood Pilate mixes with their sacrifices. ² And, answering, Jesus said to them, "Are you supposing that these Galileans came to be sinners beyond all the Galileans, seeing that they have suffered such things? ³ No, I am saying to you. But if you should not be repenting, you all shall likewise be perishing. ⁴ Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam falls and kills them, are you supposing that they came to be debtors beyond all the men dwelling in Jerusalem? ⁵ No, I am saying to you. But if ever you should not be repenting, all of you similarly shall be perishing." ⁶ Now He told this parable: "A certain man had a fig tree, planted in his vineyard, and he came, seeking fruit on it and did not find any. ⁷ Now he said to the vineyardist, 'Lo! For three years I am coming seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I am not finding any. Hew it down, then. Why is it making the land unproductive also?' ⁸ Yet he, answering, is saying to him, 'Lord, leave it this year also, till I shall be digging and casting manure about it. ⁹ And if, indeed, it ever should be producing fruit in the impending year - otherwise you shall surely hew it down.'" ¹⁰ Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbaths. ¹¹ And lo! there was a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bending together and utterly unable to unbend. ¹² Now perceiving her, Jesus shouts and said to her, "Woman, you have been released from your infirmity!" ¹³ And He places His hands on her, and instantly she was made erect again, and she glorified God. ¹⁴ Now answering, the chief of the synagogue, resenting that Jesus cures on the sabbath, said to the throng that "Six days are there on which one must be working; on them, then, coming, be cured, and not on the sabbath day." ¹⁵ Yet the Lord answered him and said, "Hypocrites! Each of you, on the sabbath, is he not loosing his ox or ass from the manger, and, leading it away, is giving it to drink? ¹⁶ Now this woman-being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan binds, lo! eighteen years - must she not be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?" ¹⁷ And at His saying these things, all those opposing Him were mortified, and the entire throng rejoiced at all the glorious things coming to be done by Him. ¹⁸ He said, then, "To what is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I be likening it? ¹⁹ Like is it to a mustard kernel, which, getting, a man casts into his garden. And it grows and became a great tree, and the flying creatures of heaven roost among its boughs." ²⁰ And again He said, "To what shall I be likening the kingdom of God? ²¹ Like is it to leaven, which, getting, a woman hides in three seahs of meal, till the whole was leavened." ²² And He went through by cities and villages, teaching and going, making for Jerusalem. ²³ Now someone said to Him, "Lord, are few being saved?" Now He said to them, ²⁴ "Be struggling to be entering through the cramped door, for I am saying to you, many will be seeking to enter and will not be strong enough. ²⁵ From which time the householder should be roused and latch the door, and you should be beginning to stand outside and to be knocking at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' and answering, he will be declaring to you, 'I am not acquainted with you! Whence are you?' ²⁶ Then should you be beginning to say, 'We ate and drank in your sight, and in our squares you teach!' ²⁷ He also will be declaring: 'I am saying to you, I am not acquainted with you! Whence are you? Withdraw from me, all workers of injustice!' ²⁸ There will be lamentation and gnashing of teeth, whenever you should be seeing Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, yet you cast outside. ²⁹ And they will be arriving from east and west and from north and south and will be made to recline in the kingdom of God. ³⁰ And lo! they are last who will be first, and they are first who will be last." ³¹ In the same house some Pharisees approached, saying to Him, "Come out and go hence, for Herod wants to kill you." ³² And He said to them, "Go and say to this jackal, 'Lo! I am casting out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and the third day I am being perfected.' ³³ Moreover, I must be going today and tomorrow and the coming one, for it is not credible that a prophet perish outside of Jerusalem. ³⁴ Jerusalem! Jerusalem! killing the prophets and pelting with stones those who have been dispatched to her! How many times do I want to assemble your children in the manner a hen does her brood under her wings, and you will not! ³⁵ Lo! left to you is your house. Yet I am saying to you that by no means may you be perceiving Me till the time will be arriving when you should be saying, 'Blessed is He Who is coming in the name of the Lord!'"