Luke 13:8-26

⁸But he answering says to him, Sir, let it alone for this year also, until I shall dig about it and put dung,

⁹and if it shall bear fruit — but if not, after that thou shalt cut it down.

¹⁰And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.

¹¹And lo, there was a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent together and wholly unable to lift her head up.

¹²And Jesus, seeing her, called to her, and said to her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.

¹³And he laid his hands upon her; and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.

¹⁴But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus healed on the sabbath, answering said to the crowd, There are six days in which people ought to work; in these therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.

¹⁵The Lord therefore answered him and said, Hypocrites! does not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the manger and leading it away, water it?

¹⁶And this woman, who is a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, lo, these eighteen years, ought she not to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

¹⁷And as he said these things, all who were opposed to him were ashamed; and all the crowd rejoiced at all the glorious things which were being done by him.

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;