Luke 13:1–22

¹And there were present certain at that time, telling him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate did mingle with their sacrifices; ²and Jesus answering said to them, ‘Think ye that these Galileans became sinners beyond all the Galileans, because they have suffered such things? ³No—I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.

⁴‘Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; think ye that these became debtors beyond all men who are dwelling in Jerusalem? ⁵No—I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye in like manner shall perish.’

⁶And he spake this simile: ‘A certain one had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit in it, and he did not find; ⁷and he said unto the vine-dresser, Lo, three years I come seeking fruit in this fig-tree, and do not find, cut it off, why also the ground doth it render useless?

⁸‘And he answering saith to him, Sir, suffer it also this year, till that I may dig about it, and cast in dung; ⁹and if indeed it may bear fruit—;and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.’

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 bowed together, and not able to bend back at all, ¹²and Jesus having seen her, did call her near, and said to her, ‘Woman, thou hast been loosed from thy infirmity;’ ¹³and he laid on her his hands, and presently she was set upright, and was glorifying God. ¹⁴And the chief of the synagogue answering—much displeased that on the sabbath Jesus healed—said to the multitude, ‘Six days there are in which it behoveth us to be working; in these, then, coming, be healed, and not on the sabbath-day.’ ¹⁵Then the Lord answered him and said, ‘Hypocrite, doth not each of you on the sabbath loose his ox or ass from the stall, and having led away, doth water it? ¹⁶and this one, being a daughter of Abraham, whom the Adversary bound, lo, eighteen years, did it not behove to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath-day?’ ¹⁷And he saying these things, all who were opposed to him were being ashamed, and all the multitude were rejoicing over all the glorious things that are being done by him.

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.