1 Now some people were showing up at that very time reporting to Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate mixed with their sacrifices.
2 And answering, Jesus said to them, "Do you* think that these Galileans were sinners more than all the other Galileans, because they have suffered such things?
3 "Not at all, I say to you*,_but_ if you* are not repenting, you* will all likewise perish.
4 "Or those, the eighteen, on whom the lookout tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you* think that these were debtors more fig., worse sinners than all the other people dwelling in Jerusalem?
5 "Not at all, I say to you*,_but_ if you* are not repenting, you* will all likewise perish."
6 Then He spoke this allegory: "A certain man had a fig tree having been planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find any.
7 "Then he said to the vineyard-keeper, 'Look! Three years I have come looking for fruit in this fig tree and do not find any. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground?'
8 "But answering, he says to him, 'Lord, let it alone this year also, until which time I dig around it and put piles of manure on it.
9 "And if then it produces fruit fine, but if not, in the coming year you will cut it down."
10 Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.
11 And look! There was a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent double and was not being able to straighten up to the completion fig., at all.
12 But Jesus having seen her called her over and said to her, "Woman, you have been set free from your infirmity!"
13 And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made erect and began glorifying God!
14 But the synagogue leader answering (being indignant that Jesus healed on the Sabbath), began saying to the crowd, "There are six days in which it is necessary for us to be working. Therefore, on these days be coming and getting healed, and not on the day of the Sabbath."
15 Then the Lord answered him and said, "Hypocrites! Does not each one of you* on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey from the stall, and having led it away, give it water?
16 "But this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan indeed bound eighteen years, it was necessary for her to be released from this bond on the day of the Sabbath, was it not?"
17 And when He said these things all the ones opposing Him were being put to shame, and the whole crowd was rejoicing over all the glorious things, the ones being done by Him.
18 Then He was saying, "What is the kingdom of God like? And to what will I compare it?
19 "It is like a grain of mustard or, mustard seed, which a man having taken, put into his garden, and it grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches."
20 Again He said, "To what will I compare the kingdom of God?
21 "It is like leaven or, yeast, which a woman having taken, hid or, mixed into three satons about 36 quarts or 40 liters of wheat flour until it was all leavened."
22 And He was passing through according to fig., through various cities and villages teaching and making a journey to Jerusalem.
23 Now someone said to Him, "Lord, are the ones being saved few?" And He said to them,
24 "Be striving to go in through the narrow gate, because many, I say to you*, will seek to enter and will not be able.
25 "From whatever time the Master of the house is risen up and shuts the door, and* you begin to have stood outside and to be knocking at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us,' and answering, He will say to you*, 'I do not know you*, where you* are from.'
26 "Then you* will begin to be saying, 'We ate and drank before You, and You taught in our open streets.'
27 "And He will say, 'I say to you*, I do not know you*, where you* are from. Depart from Me, all you* workers of unrighteousness!'
28 "In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you* see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you* yourselves being thrown out outside!
29 "And they will come from east and west and north and south, and they will recline to eat in the kingdom of God.
30 "And listen! There are last ones who will be first, and there are first ones who will be last."
31 On that very day some Pharisees approached, saying to Him, "Get out and be going from here, for Herod wants to kill You."
32 And He said to them, "Having gone, say to this fox, 'Look! I am casting out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and the third day I am being perfected.'
33 "Nevertheless, it is necessary for Me to be traveling today and tomorrow and the following day, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.
34 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city killing the prophets and stoning the ones having been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather together your children by which manner fig., just as a hen gathers her brood of chicks under her wings, and you* did want to.
35 "Look! Your* house is being left to you* desolate. But, I say to you*, by no means shall you* see Me until the time comes when you* shall say, 'Having been blessed is the One coming in the name of the LORD.'" Psalm 118:26