Luke 13:1-19 ▼

1 And there were some present, at that very season, who reported to Him concerning the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices.

2 And, answering, He said to them, "Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they have suffered these things?

3 I tell you, nay; but, unless ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

4 Or those eighteen upon whom the tower in Siloam fell and slew them, suppose ye that they were offenders above all the men dwelling in Jerusalem?

5 I tell you, nay; but, unless ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish."

6 And He spake this parable: "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit thereon, and found none.

7 And he said to the vinedresser, 'Behold, these three years I come, seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none; cut it down; why does it also make the land useless?'

8 But he, answering, says to him, 'Lord, leave it this year also, until I dig about it, and cast in fertilizers.

9 And if, indeed, it bear fruit for the future, well ; but, if not, you shall cut it down.'"

10 And He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.

11 And, behold, a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and wholly unable to raise herself up.

12 And Jesus, seeing her, called and said to her, "Woman, you have been loosed from your infirmity."

13 And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and was glorifying God.

14 But the synagogue-ruler, answering, (being much displeased that Jesus healed her on the sabbath), said to the multitude, "There are six days in which it behooves us to work; in these, therefore, coming, be healed, and not on the sabbath day."

15 And the Lord answered him, and said, "Hypocrites! does not each one of you, on the sabbath, loose his ox or his ass from the stall; and, leading it away, water it?

16 And was it not right that this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan bound, lo, eighteen years, should have been loosed from this bond on the day of the sabbath?"

17 And, when He said these things, all those opposing Him were being put to shame, and all the multitude were rejoicing because of all the glorious things which were being done by Him.

18 And He said, "To what is the Kingdom of God like? and to what shall I liken it?

19 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man, taking, cast into his own garden; and it grew, and became a tree; and the birds of the heaven lodged in its branches."