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Luke 13
Chapter summary coming soon.
Verse 1. At that time some of those present told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
Verse 2. To this He replied, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered this way?
Verse 3. No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
Verse 4. Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think that they were more sinful than all the others living in Jerusalem?
Verse 5. No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”
Verse 6. Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it but did not find any.
Verse 7. So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’
Verse 8. ‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone again this year, until I dig around it and fertilize it.
Verse 9. If it bears fruit next year, fine. But if not, you can cut it down.’”
Verse 10. One Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues,
Verse 11. and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight.
Verse 12. When Jesus saw her, He called her over and said, “Woman, you are set free from your disability.”
Verse 13. Then He placed His hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and began to glorify God.
Verse 14. But the synagogue leader was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. “There are six days for work,” he told the crowd. “So come and be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath.”
Verse 15. “You hypocrites!” the Lord replied. “Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it to water?
Verse 16. Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?”
Verse 17. When Jesus said this, all His adversaries were humiliated. And the whole crowd rejoiced at all the glorious things He was doing.
Verse 18. Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it?
Verse 19. It is like a mustard seed that a man tossed into his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches.”
Verse 20. Again He asked, “To what can I compare the kingdom of God?
Verse 21. It is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
Verse 22. Then Jesus traveled throughout the towns and villages, teaching as He made His way toward Jerusalem.
Verse 23. “Lord,” someone asked Him, “will only a few people be saved?” Jesus answered,
Verse 24. “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
Verse 25. After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’
Verse 26. Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’
Verse 27. And he will answer, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers.’
Verse 28. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are thrown out.
Verse 29. People will come from east and west and north and south, and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God.
Verse 30. And indeed, some who are last will be first, and some who are first will be last.”
Verse 31. At that very hour, some Pharisees came to Jesus and told Him, “Leave this place and get away, because Herod wants to kill You.”
Verse 32. But Jesus replied, “Go tell that fox, ‘Look, I will keep driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach My goal.’
Verse 33. Nevertheless, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not admissible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.
Verse 34. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
Verse 35. Look, your house is left to you desolate. And I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”