1 Now on the same occasion there were some present who reported to Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
2 And Jesus said to them, |Do you suppose that these Galileans were [greater] sinners than all [other] Galileans because they suffered this [fate]?
3 |I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
4 |Or do you suppose that those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them were [worse] culprits than all the men who live in Jerusalem?
5 |I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.|
6 And He [began] telling this parable: |A man had a fig tree which had been planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find any.
7 |And he said to the vineyard-keeper, 'Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree without finding any. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground?'
8 |And he answered and said to him, 'Let it alone, sir, for this year too, until I dig around it and put in fertilizer;
9 and if it bears fruit next year, [fine]; but if not, cut it down.'|
10 And He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.
11 And there was a woman who for eighteen years had had a sickness caused by a spirit; and she was bent double, and could not straighten up at all.
12 When Jesus saw her, He called her over and said to her, |Woman, you are freed from your sickness.|
13 And He laid His hands on her; and immediately she was made erect again and [began] glorifying God.
14 But the synagogue official, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, [began] saying to the crowd in response, |There are six days in which work should be done; so come during them and get healed, and not on the Sabbath day.|
15 But the Lord answered him and said, |You hypocrites, does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the stall and lead him away to water [him]?
16 |And this woman, a daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan has bound for eighteen long years, should she not have been released from this bond on the Sabbath day?|
17 As He said this, all His opponents were being humiliated; and the entire crowd was rejoicing over all the glorious things being done by Him.
18 So He was saying, |What is the kingdom of God like, and to what shall I compare it?
19 |It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and threw into his own garden; and it grew and became a tree, and THE BIRDS OF THE AIR NESTED IN ITS BRANCHES.|
20 And again He said, |To what shall I compare the kingdom of God?
21 |It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three pecks of flour until it was all leavened.|
