¹Now there were some people present at that very time reporting to him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. ²To this Jesus reacted and said to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all the other Galileans, because they have suffered such things? ³No, I say to you, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way. ⁴Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them – do you suppose these were more at fault than all the other men who live in Jerusalem? ⁵No, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.” ⁶Then he related this parable. “A certain man had a fig tree which had been planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it, but he did not find any, ⁷and he said to his vinedresser, ‘That's three years that I have been coming looking for fruit on this fig tree, but not finding any. Cut it down. Why should it for its part occupy the ground pointlessly?’ ⁸But he answered and said to him, ‘Master, leave it this year too, until I have dug around it and applied manure. ⁹And if it bears fruit, well and good. But if not, you can cut it down in the coming year.’ ” ¹⁰Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath, ¹¹and there was a woman who had been possessed by a spirit of illness for eighteen years, and who was bent double and was not able to straighten up at all. ¹²Then when Jesus saw her, he called to her and said to her, “Madam, you have been made free of your illness.” ¹³And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight again, and she glorified God. ¹⁴But the president of the synagogue, who was annoyed that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded and said to the congregation, “There are six days on which one must do work. So come on these days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.” ¹⁵Therefore the Lord answered him and said, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you untie his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath and lead it away to give it drink? ¹⁶Should this woman, who is a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound all these eighteen years, not be freed from this bond on the Sabbath day?” ¹⁷And with him saying these things, all those who opposed him were put to shame, and all the congregation rejoiced at all the illustrious things which were done by him. ¹⁸Then he said, “To what is the kingdom of God similar, and with what shall I compare it? ¹⁹It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and threw in his own garden, and it grew and became a big tree, and the birds of the sky nestled in its branches.” ²⁰He spoke again: “To what shall I liken the kingdom of God? ²¹It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three satums of flour, until it was all leavened.” ²²Then he crossed around from town to town and village to village, teaching and making his way to Jerusalem. ²³And someone said to him, “Lord, is it only a few who are saved?” He then said to them, ²⁴“Exert yourselves to go in through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, are trying to go in, but they will not be able. ²⁵Once the master of the house has got up and closed the door, when you make a move and stand outside and knock on the door and say, ‘Lord, lord, open up to us’, he will then answer and say to you, ‘I don't know where you are from.’ ²⁶Then you will go on to say, ‘We have eaten and drunk in your company, and you taught us in our streets.’ ²⁷Then he will say, ‘I say to you, I do not know where you are from. Keep away from me, all you perpetrators of iniquity.’ ²⁸There, 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 cast out. ²⁹And they will come from the east and the west and the north and the south, and they will recline at table in the kingdom of God. ³⁰And you will see that there are some last who will be first, and that there are some first who will be last.” ³¹On that day, some Pharisees came over and said to him, “Get out and go away from here, for Herod wishes to kill you.” ³²At this he said to them, “Go and say to that fox, ‘Look, I cast out demons and accomplish healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will come to an end.’ ³³But it is necessary for me to make my journey today and tomorrow and the day after, because it is not admissible for a prophet to perish outside Jerusalem. ³⁴Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I wished to gather your children in the way a bird gathers its own brood under its wings, but you were not willing! ³⁵See how your house is left to you desolate. And I say to you that you will not see me at all until the time comes when you say,

Reference(s) in Chapter 13: v.27 ↔ Psalm 6:9^MT (Psalm 6:8^AV) ● v.35 ↔ Psalm 118:26.