Luke 13:10-21

10As he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath,

11a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for over eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.

12When Jesus saw her, he called out to her, “Woman, you are free of your disability.”

13Then he laid his hands on her, and instantly she was restored and began to glorify God.

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.”

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?

16Satan has bound this woman, a daughter of Abraham, for eighteen years — shouldn’t she be untied from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”

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.

18He said, therefore, “What is the kingdom of God like, and what can I compare it to?

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.”

20Again he said, “What can I compare the kingdom of God to?

21It’s like leaven that a woman took and mixed into fifty pounds of flour until all of it was leavened.”