Luke 13:8-26

⁸And he answering said to him, Lord, suffer it also this year, the while I delve about it, and I shall dung it or and dung it;

⁹if it shall make fruit, else if not, in time coming thou shalt cut it down.

¹⁰And he was teaching in their synagogue in the sabbaths.

¹¹And lo! a woman, that had a spirit of sickness eighteen years, and was crooked or bowed down, and neither in any manner might look upward.

¹²Whom when Jesus had seen, he called her to him, and said to her, Woman, thou art delivered of thy sickness.

¹³And he set or put on her his hands, and anon she stood upright, and glorified God.

¹⁴And the prince of the synagogue answered, having disdain for Jesus had healed in the sabbath; and he said to the people, There be six days, in which it behooveth to work; therefore come ye in these, and be ye healed, and not in the day of sabbath.

¹⁵But the Lord answered to him, and said, Hypocrite, whether each of you untieth not in the sabbath his ox, or ass, from the cratch, or the stall, and leadeth to water?

¹⁶Behooved it not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo! eighteen years, to be unbound of this bond in the day of sabbath?

¹⁷And when he said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed, and all the people joyed in all things, that were gloriously done of him.

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.