Luke 13:14-31

¹⁴However, the synagogue leader was upset that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. He said to the crowd, “There are six days for work. Come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath.”

¹⁵But the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn't every one of you untie your ox or donkey from the stall and take it to drink?

¹⁶Why shouldn't this woman, this daughter of Abraham whom Satan has kept tied up for eighteen years, be untied and set free this Sabbath day?”

¹⁷What he said shamed all his opponents, but everyone in the crowd was delighted by all the wonderful things he was doing.

¹⁸Then Jesus asked, “So what is the kingdom of God like? What should I compare it to?

¹⁹It's like a mustard seed that a man planted in his garden. It grew into a tree, and the birds came and nested in its branches.”

²⁰He asked again, “What shall I compare the kingdom of God to?

²¹It's like yeast that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour which made the whole batch rise.”

²²Jesus went around the towns and villages, teaching on his way to Jerusalem.

²³Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?” Jesus replied,

²⁴“Try very hard to enter the narrow doorway, because I tell you that many will try to go in, and won't succeed.

²⁵Once the house owner gets up and closes the door, you'll be standing outside knocking on the door, saying, ‘Master, please open the door for us.’ But he'll reply, ‘I don't know you or where you're from.’

²⁶Then you'll say, ‘But we ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets!’

²⁷He'll reply, ‘I tell you, I don't know you or where you're from. Get away from me, all of you who don't do what's good!’

²⁸There will be crying and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you are thrown out.

²⁹People will come from the east and the west, the north and the south, and they will sit down to eat in the kingdom of God.

³⁰For the last shall be first, and the first shall be last.”

³¹At that moment some Pharisees came to Jesus and told him, “You should leave here. Herod wants to kill you!”