Luke 13-14

Luke 13

¹Now at the same time there were present some who told him of the Galileans whose blood Pilate mingled with that of their sacrifices.

²And he answering said to them, Think ye that these Galileans were sinners beyond all the Galileans because they suffered such things?

³No, I say to you, but if ye repent not, ye shall all perish in the same manner.

⁴Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, think ye that *they* were debtors beyond all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?

⁵No, I say to you, but if ye repent not, ye shall all perish in like manner.

⁶And he spoke this parable: A certain man had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit upon it and did not find any.

⁷And he said to the vinedresser, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree and find none: cut it down; why does it also render the ground useless?

⁸But he answering says to him, Sir, let it alone for this year also, until I shall dig about it and put dung,

⁹and if it shall bear fruit -- but if not, after that thou shalt cut it down.

¹⁰And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.

¹¹And lo, there was a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent together and wholly unable to lift her head up.

¹²And Jesus, seeing her, called to her, and said to her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.

¹³And he laid his hands upon her; and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.

¹⁴But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus healed on the sabbath, answering said to the crowd, There are six days in which people ought to work; in these therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.

¹⁵The Lord therefore answered him and said, Hypocrites! does not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the manger and leading it away, water it?

¹⁶And this woman, who is a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, lo, these eighteen years, ought she not to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

¹⁷And as he said these things, all who were opposed to him were ashamed; and all the crowd rejoiced at all the glorious things which were being done by him.

¹⁸And he said, To what is the kingdom of God like? and to what shall I liken it?

¹⁹It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and cast into his garden; and it grew and became a great tree, and the birds of heaven lodged in its branches.

²⁰And again he said, To what shall I liken the kingdom of God?

²¹It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until the whole was leavened.

²²And he went through one city and village after another, teaching, and journeying to Jerusalem.

²³And one said to him, Sir, are such as are to be saved few in number? But he said unto them,

²⁴Strive with earnestness to enter in through the narrow door, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

²⁵From the time that the master of the house shall have risen up and shall have shut the door, and ye shall begin to stand without and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, open to us; and he answering shall say to you, I know you not whence ye are:

²⁶then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten in thy presence and drunk, and thou hast taught in our streets;

²⁷and he shall say, I tell you, I do not know you whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.

²⁸There shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves cast out.

²⁹And they shall come from east and west, and from north and south, and shall lie down at table in the kingdom of God.

³⁰And behold, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last.

³¹The same hour certain Pharisees came up, saying to him, Get out, and go hence, for Herod is desirous to kill thee.

³²And he said to them, Go, tell that fox, Behold, I cast out demons and accomplish cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am perfected;

³³but I must needs walk to-day and to-morrow and the day following, for it must not be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.

³⁴Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen her brood under her wings, and ye would not.

³⁵Behold, your house is left unto you; and I say unto you, that ye shall not see me until it come that ye say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.

Luke 14

¹And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the rulers, who was of the Pharisees, to eat bread on the sabbath, that *they* were watching him.

²And behold, there was a certain dropsical man before him.

³And Jesus answering spoke unto the doctors of the law and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath?

⁴But they were silent. And taking him he healed him and let him go.

⁵And answering he said to them, Of which of you shall an ass or ox fall into a well, that he does not straightway pull him up on the sabbath day?

⁶And they were not able to answer him to these things.

⁷And he spoke a parable to those that were invited, remarking how they chose out the first places, saying to them,

⁸When thou art invited by any one to a wedding, do not lay thyself down in the first place at table, lest perhaps a more honourable than thou be invited by him,

⁹and he who invited thee and him come and say to thee, Give place to this man, and then thou begin with shame to take the last place.

¹⁰But when thou hast been invited, go and put thyself down in the last place, that when he who has invited thee comes, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have honour before all that are lying at table with thee;

¹¹for every one that exalts himself shall be abased, and he that abases himself shall be exalted.

¹²And he said also to him that had invited him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsfolk, nor rich neighbours, lest it may be they also should invite thee in return, and a recompense be made thee.

¹³But when thou makest a feast, call poor, crippled, lame, blind:

¹⁴and thou shalt be blessed; for they have not the means to recompense thee; for it shall be recompensed thee in the resurrection of the just.

¹⁵And one of those that were lying at table with them, hearing these things, said to him, Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.

¹⁶And he said to him, A certain man made a great supper and invited many.

¹⁷And he sent his bondman at the hour of supper to say to those who were invited, Come, for already all things are ready.

¹⁸And all began, without exception, to excuse themselves. The first said to him, I have bought land, and I must go out and see it; I pray thee hold me for excused.

¹⁹And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them; I pray thee hold me for excused.

²⁰And another said, I have married a wife, and on this account I cannot come.

²¹And the bondman came up and brought back word of these things to his lord. Then the master of the house, in anger, said to his bondman, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring here the poor and crippled and lame and blind.

²²And the bondman said, Sir, it is done as thou hast commanded, and there is still room.

²³And the lord said to the bondman, Go out into the ways and fences and compel to come in, that my house may be filled;

²⁴for I say to you, that not one of those men who were invited shall taste of my supper.

²⁵And great crowds went with him; and, turning round, he said to them,

²⁶If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple;

²⁷and whoever does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

²⁸For which of you, desirous of building a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, if he have what is needed to complete it;

²⁹in order that, having laid the foundation of it, and not being able to finish it, all who see it do not begin to mock at him,

³⁰saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish?

³¹Or what king, going on his way to engage in war with another king, does not, sitting down first, take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him coming against him with twenty thousand?

³²and if not, while he is yet far off, having sent an embassy, he asks for terms of peace.

³³Thus then every one of you who forsakes not all that is his own cannot be my disciple.

³⁴Salt then is good, but if the salt also has become savourless, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

³⁵It is proper neither for land nor for dung; it is cast out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.