Luke 13:18-34

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,

²⁴Strive ye to enter by the strait gate; for I say to you, many seek to enter in, and they shall not be able.

²⁵For when the husbandman is entered, and the door is closed, ye shall begin to stand withoutforth, and knock at the door, and say, Lord, open to us. And he shall answer, and say to you, I know you not, of whence ye be.

²⁶Then ye shall begin to say, We have eaten before thee and drunk, and in our streets thou hast taught.

²⁷And he shall say to you, I know you not, of whence ye be; go away from me, all ye workers of wickedness.

²⁸There shall be weeping and grinding of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God; and you to be put out.

²⁹And they shall come from the east and the west, and from the north and the south, and shall sit at the meat in the realm of God.

³⁰And lo! they that were the first, be the last; and they that were the last, be the first.

³¹In that day some of the Pharisees came nigh, and said to him, Go out, and go from hence, for Herod will slay thee.

³²And he said to them, Go ye, and say to that fox, Lo! I cast out fiends, and I make perfectly healings, today and tomorrow, and the third day I am ended.

³³Nevertheless it behooveth me today, and tomorrow, and the day that pursueth, to walk; for it falleth not for a prophet to perish out of Jerusalem.

³⁴Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that slayest prophets, and stonest them that be sent to thee, how oft would I gather together thy sons, as a bird gathereth his nest under feathers or under wings, and thou wouldest not.