Luke 13:18-34

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

¹⁹It is like to a grain of mustard, which a man having taken, did cast into his garden, and it increased, and came to a great tree, and the fowls of the heavens did rest in its branches.'

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

²¹It is like leaven, which a woman, having taken, did hide in three measures of meal, till that all was leavened.'

²²And he was going through cities and villages, teaching, and making progress toward Jerusalem;

²³and a certain one said to him, 'Sir, are those saved few?' and he said unto them,

²⁴'Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;

²⁵from the time the master of the house may have risen up, and may have shut the door, and ye may begin without to stand, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, lord, open to us, and he answering shall say to you, I have not known you whence ye are,

²⁶then ye may begin to say, We did eat before thee, and did drink, and in our broad places thou didst teach;

²⁷and he shall say, I say to you, I have not known you whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of the unrighteousness.

²⁸'There shall be there the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth, when ye may see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the reign of God, and yourselves being cast out without;

²⁹and they shall come from east and west, and from north and south, and shall recline in the reign of God,

³⁰and lo, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last.'

³¹On that day there came near certain Pharisees, saying to him, 'Go forth, and be going on hence, for Herod doth wish to kill thee;'

³²and he said to them, 'Having gone, say to this fox, Lo, I cast forth demons, and perfect cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am being perfected;

³³but it behoveth me to-day, and to-morrow, and the day following, to go on, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish out of Jerusalem.

³⁴'Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that is killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto her, how often did I will to gather together thy children, as a hen her brood under the wings, and ye did not will.