The Good News According to Luke, Chapter 13
{13:1} Now there were some present at the same time who told him
about the Galilim, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
{13:2} Yeshua answered them, "Do you think that these Galilim were
worse sinners than all the other Galilim, because they suffered such
things? {13:3} I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all
perish in the same way. {13:4} Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in
Shiloach fell, and killed them; do you think that they were worse
offenders than all the men who dwell in Yerushalayim? {13:5} I tell
you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way."
{13:6} He spoke this parable. "A certain man had a fig tree planted
in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.
{13:7} He said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I have
come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down.
Why does it waste the soil?' {13:8} He answered, 'Lord, leave it alone
this year also, until I dig around it, and fertilize it. {13:9} If it
bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.'"
{13:10} He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the day of
Shabbat. {13:11} Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of
infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent over, and could in no way
straighten herself up. {13:12} When Yeshua saw her, he called her, and
said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your infirmity." {13:13} He
laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight, and
glorified God.
{13:14} The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Yeshua
had healed on the Shabbat, said to the multitude, "There are six days
in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be
healed, and not on the day of Shabbat!"
{13:15} Therefore the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Doesn't
each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the
Shabbat, and lead him away to water? {13:16} Ought not this woman,
being a daughter of Avraham, whom Hasatan had bound eighteen long
years, be freed from this bondage on the day of Shabbat?"
{13:17} As he said these things, all his adversaries were put to
shame, and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that
were done by him.
{13:18} He said, "What is the Kingdom of God like? To what shall I
compare it? {13:19} It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man
took, and put in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and
the birds of the sky lodged in its branches."
{13:20} Again he said, "To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God?
{13:21} It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three sata of
flour, until it was all leavened."
{13:22} He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching,
and traveling on to Yerushalayim. {13:23} One said to him, "Lord, are
they few who are saved?"
He said to them, {13:24} "Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for
many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able. {13:25}
When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door,
and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying,
'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer and tell you, 'I don't
know you or where you come from.' {13:26} Then you will begin to say,
'We ate and drink in your presence, and you taught in our streets.'
{13:27} He will say, 'I tell you, I don't know where you come from.
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.' {13:28} There will be
weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Avraham, Yitzchak,
Ya`akov, and all the prophets, in the Kingdom of God, and yourselves
being thrown outside. {13:29} They will come from the east, west,
north, and south, and will sit down in the Kingdom of God. {13:30}
Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and there are
some who are first who will be last."
{13:31} On that same day, some Perushim came, saying to him, "Get
out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you."
{13:32} He said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast out
demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I
complete my mission. {13:33} Nevertheless I must go on my way today
and tomorrow and the next day, for it can't be that a prophet perish
outside of Yerushalayim.'
{13:34} "Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim, that kills the prophets, and
stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your
children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings,
and you refused! {13:35} Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I
tell you, you will not see me, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes
in the name of the Lord!'"
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