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Luke Chapter 13 013:001 Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 013:002 Jesus answered them, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things? 013:003 I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.
013:004 Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem? 013:005 I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way." 013:006 He spoke this parable. "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none. 013:007 He said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none.
Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?' 013:008 He answered, 'Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it, and fertilize it. 013:009 If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.'" 013:010 He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day. 013:011 Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up.
013:012 When Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your infirmity." 013:013 He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight, and glorified God. 013:014 The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, "There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!" 013:015 Therefore the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites!
Doesn't each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath, and lead him away to water? 013:016 Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?" 013:017 As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed, and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him. 013:018 He said, "What is the Kingdom of God like? To what shall I compare it?
013:019 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky lodged in its branches." 013:020 Again he said, "To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God? 013:021 It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures{literally, three sata.
3 sata is about 39 litres or a bit more than a bushel} of flour, until it was all leavened." 013:022 He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and traveling on to Jerusalem. 013:023 One said to him, "Lord, are they few who are saved?" He said to them, 013:024 "Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
013:025 When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer and tell you, 'I don't know you or where you come from.' 013:026 Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.' 013:027 He will say, 'I tell you, I don't know where you come from.
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.' 013:028 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, in the Kingdom of God, and yourselves being thrown outside. 013:029 They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in the Kingdom of God.
013:030 Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last." 013:031 On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, "Get out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you." 013:032 He said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I complete my mission.
013:033 Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, for it can't be that a prophet perish outside of Jerusalem.' 013:034 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused! 013:035 Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'"{Psalm 118:26}