Luke 13:11-23

¹¹And lo! a woman, that had a spirit of sickness eighteen years, and was crooked or bowed down, and neither in any manner might look upward.

¹²Whom when Jesus had seen, he called her to him, and said to her, Woman, thou art delivered of thy sickness.

¹³And he set or put on her his hands, and anon she stood upright, and glorified God.

¹⁴And the prince of the synagogue answered, having disdain for Jesus had healed in the sabbath; and he said to the people, There be six days, in which it behooveth to work; therefore come ye in these, and be ye healed, and not in the day of sabbath.

¹⁵But the Lord answered to him, and said, Hypocrite, whether each of you untieth not in the sabbath his ox, or ass, from the cratch, or the stall, and leadeth to water?

¹⁶Behooved it not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo! eighteen years, to be unbound of this bond in the day of sabbath?

¹⁷And when he said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed, and all the people joyed in all things, that were gloriously done of him.

¹⁸Therefore he said, To what thing is the kingdom of God like? and to what thing shall I guess it to be like?

¹⁹It is like to a corn of sinapi, which a man took, and cast into his garden or into his yard; and it waxed, and was made into a great tree, and fowls of the air rested in the branches thereof.

²⁰And again he said, To what thing shall I guess the kingdom of God like?

²¹It is like to sourdough that a woman took, and hid it in three measures of meal, till all were soured.

²²And he went by cities and castles, teaching and making journey into Jerusalem.

²³And a man said to him, Lord, if there be few, that be saved? And he said to them,