Luke 13:1-17 ▼

1 Just at that time people came to tell Him about the Galilaeans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

2 "Do you suppose," He asked in reply, "that those Galilaeans were worse sinners than the mass of the Galilaeans, because this happened to them?

3 I tell you, certainly not. On the contrary, if you are not penitent you will all perish as they did.

4 Or those eighteen on whom the tower at Siloam fell, do you suppose they had failed in their duty more than all the rest of the people who live in Jerusalem?

5 I tell you, certainly not. On the contrary, if you do not repent you will all perish just as they did."

6 And He gave them the following parable. "A man," He said, "who had a fig-tree growing in his garden came to look for fruit on it and could find none.

7 So he said to the gardener, "'See, this is the third year I have come to look for fruit on this fig-tree and cannot find any. Cut it down. Why should so much ground be actually wasted?'

8 "But the gardener pleaded, "'Leave it, Sir, this year also, till I have dug round it and manured it.

9 If after that it bears fruit, well and good; if it does not, then you shall cut it down.'"

10 Once He was teaching on the Sabbath in one of the synagogues

11 where a woman was present who for eighteen years had been a confirmed invalid: she was bent double, and was unable to lift herself to her full height.

12 But Jesus saw her, and calling to her, He said to her, "Woman, you are free from your weakness."

13 And He put His hands on her, and she immediately stood upright and began to give glory to God.

14 Then the Warden of the Synagogue, indignant that Jesus had cured her on a Sabbath, said to the crowd, "There are six days in the week on which people ought to work. On those days therefore come and get yourselves cured, and not on the Sabbath day."

15 But the Lord's reply to him was, "Hypocrites, does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his bullock or his ass from the stall and lead him to water?

16 And this woman, daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan had bound for no less than eighteen years, was she not to be loosed from this chain because it is the Sabbath day?"

17 When He had said this, all His opponents were ashamed, while the whole multitude was delighted at the many glorious things continually done by Him.