Luke 13:18-30

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.”