Luke 13:10-33

10One Sabbath day as Jesus was teaching in a synagogue,

11he saw a woman who had been crippled by an evil spirit. She had been bent double for eighteen years and was unable to stand up straight.

12When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Dear woman, you are healed of your sickness!”

13Then he touched her, and instantly she could stand straight. How she praised God!

14But the leader in charge of the synagogue was indignant that Jesus had healed her on the Sabbath day. “There are six days of the week for working,” he said to the crowd. “Come on those days to be healed, not on the Sabbath.”

15But the Lord replied, “You hypocrites! Each of you works on the Sabbath day! Don’t you untie your ox or your donkey from its stall on the Sabbath and lead it out for water?

16This dear woman, a daughter of Abraham, has been held in bondage by Satan for eighteen years. Isn’t it right that she be released, even on the Sabbath?”

17This shamed his enemies, but all the people rejoiced at the wonderful things he did.

18Then Jesus said, “What is the Kingdom of God like? How can I illustrate it?

19It is like a tiny mustard seed that a man planted in a garden; it grows and becomes a tree, and the birds make nests in its branches.”

20He also asked, “What else is the Kingdom of God like?

21It is like the yeast a woman used in making bread. Even though she put only a little yeast in three measures of flour, it permeated every part of the dough.”

22Jesus went through the towns and villages, teaching as he went, always pressing on toward Jerusalem.

23Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?” He replied,

24“Work hard to enter the narrow door to God’s Kingdom, for many will try to enter but will fail.

25When the master of the house has locked the door, it will be too late. You will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Lord, open the door for us!’ But he will reply, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

26Then you will say, ‘But we ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’

27And he will reply, ‘I tell you, I don’t know you or where you come from. Get away from me, all you who do evil.’

28“There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, for you will see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, but you will be thrown out.

29And people will come from all over the world—from east and west, north and south—to take their places in the Kingdom of God.

30And note this: Some who seem least important now will be the greatest then, and some who are the greatest now will be least important then.”

31At that time some Pharisees said to him, “Get away from here if you want to live! Herod Antipas wants to kill you!”

32Jesus replied, “Go tell that fox that I will keep on casting out demons and healing people today and tomorrow; and the third day I will accomplish my purpose.

33Yes, today, tomorrow, and the next day I must proceed on my way. For it wouldn’t do for a prophet of God to be killed except in Jerusalem!