Luke 13:18-34

¹⁸And he said, To what is the kingdom of God like? and to what shall I liken it?

¹⁹It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and cast into his garden; and it grew and became a great tree, and the birds of heaven lodged in its branches.

²⁰And again he said, To what shall I liken the kingdom of God?

²¹It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until the whole was leavened.

²²And he went through one city and village after another, teaching, and journeying to Jerusalem.

²³And one said to him, Sir, are such as are to be saved few in number? But he said unto them,

²⁴Strive with earnestness to enter in through the narrow door, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

²⁵From the time that the master of the house shall have risen up and shall have shut the door, and ye shall begin to stand without and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, open to us; and he answering shall say to you, I know you not whence ye are:

²⁶then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten in thy presence and drunk, and thou hast taught in our streets;

²⁷and he shall say, I tell you, I do not know you whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.

²⁸There shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves cast out.

²⁹And they shall come from east and west, and from north and south, and shall lie down at table in the kingdom of God.

³⁰And behold, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last.

³¹The same hour certain Pharisees came up, saying to him, Get out, and go hence, for Herod is desirous to kill thee.

³²And he said to them, Go, tell that fox, Behold, I cast out demons and accomplish cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am perfected;

³³but I must needs walk to-day and to-morrow and the day following, for it must not be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.

³⁴Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen her brood under her wings, and ye would not.