| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1At that time, some people came and reported to Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2And He responded to them, "Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all Galileans because they suffered these things? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as well! |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Or those 18 that the tower in Siloam fell on and killed--do you think they were more sinful than all the people who live in Jerusalem? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as well!" |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6And He told this parable: "A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He came looking for fruit on it and found none. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He told the vineyard worker, Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it even waste the soil?' |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"But he replied to him, Sir, leave it this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Perhaps it will bear fruit next year, but if not, you can cut it down.'" |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10As He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for over 18 years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12When Jesus saw her, He called out to her, "Woman, you are free of your disability." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Then He laid His hands on her, and instantly she was restored and began to glorify God. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded by telling the crowd, "There are six days when work should be done; therefore come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day." |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15But the Lord answered him and said, "Hypocrites! Doesn't each one of you untie his ox or donkey from the feeding trough on the Sabbath and lead it to water? |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Satan has bound this woman, a daughter of Abraham, for 18 years--shouldn't she be untied from this bondage on the Sabbath day?" |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17When He had said these things, all His adversaries were humiliated, but the whole crowd was rejoicing over all the glorious things He was doing. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18He said, therefore, "What is the kingdom of God like, and what can I compare it to? |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19It's like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches." |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Again He said, "What can I compare the kingdom of God to? |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21It's like yeast that a woman took and mixed into 50 pounds of flour until it spread through the entire mixture." |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22He went through one town and village after another, teaching and making His way to Jerusalem." |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Lord," someone asked Him, "are there few being saved?" He said to them, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because I tell you, many will try to enter and won't be able |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25once the homeowner gets up and shuts the door. Then you will stand outside and knock on the door, saying, Lord, open up for us!' He will answer you, I don't know you or where you're from.' |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Then you will say, 'We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets!' |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27But He will say, I tell you, I don't know you or where you're from. Get away from Me, all you workers of unrighteousness!' |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth in that place, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves thrown out. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29They will come from east and west, from north and south, and recline at the table in the kingdom of God. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Note this: Some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last." |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31At that time some Pharisees came and told Him, "Go, get out of here! Herod wants to kill You!" |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32He said to them, "Go tell that fox, Look! I'm driving out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete My work.' |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Yet I must travel today, tomorrow, and the next day, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem! |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34"Jerusalem, Jerusalem! She who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35See, your house is abandoned to you. And I tell you, you will not see Me until the time comes when you say, He who comes in the name of the Lord is the blessed One'!" |
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