Jesus demands repentance
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📚At that same time some were present who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate✭ had mixed with their sacrifices.2 📚✭And Jesus in answer said to them, “Do you think that those Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered this way? 3 📚I tell you, No. But unless you repent, you will all perish just as they did. 4 📚✭Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower in Siloam fell on them, do you think they were worse sinners than everyone else who lived in Jerusalem? 5 📚I tell you, No. But unless you repent, you will all perish just as they did”.
The parable of the barren tree
6 📚✭✭He also spoke this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came and looked for fruit on it, and found none. 7 📚✭Then he said to the man taking care of his vineyard, ‘Look, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and haven’t found any. Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?’ 8 📚✭And he answered and said to him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also until I dig around it and fertilize it. 9 📚And if it bears fruit, good; and if not, then after that you can cut it down.’ ”
Jesus heals a woman on the Sabbath
10 📚And he was teaching in one of the synagogues✭ on the Sabbath✭. 11 📚✭And, suddenly, a woman was there who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years, and she was bent over and could not straighten up at all.
12 📚And when Jesus saw her, he called her and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity”.
13 📚And he laid hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. 14 📚And the ruler of the synagogue responded with indignation because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, and said to the people, “There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come and be healed on those days, and not on the Sabbath day”.
15 📚✭Then the Lord answered him and said, “Hypocrite! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead him off to water? 16 📚✭And should not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan✭ has bound now for eighteen years, be set free from this bond on the Sabbath day?”
17 📚And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame✭. And all the people rejoiced because of all the glorious things that were done by him.
Illustrations about God’s kingdom
18 📚Then he said, “What is the kingdom of God like? To what shall I compare it? 19 📚It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and threw into his garden, and it grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches”.
20 And again he said, “To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? 21 📚It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until the whole was leavened”.
Jesus speaks of the one way of salvation
22 📚And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and travelling toward Jerusalem. 23 📚✭Then someone said to him, “Lord, are only a few saved?” And he said to them,
24 📚✭“Strive✭ to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will try to enter and will not be able. 25 📚✭When once the master of the house has gotten up and shut the door, and outside you begin to stand and knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us’, he will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know from where you are.’ 26 📚✭Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ 27 📚But he will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know from where you are. Depart from me, all you evildoers.’
28 📚“There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrown out. 29 📚And they will come from the east and the west, and from the north and the south, and will sit down in the kingdom of God. 30 📚And indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and there are those who are first who will be last”.
31 📚✭That same day some of the Pharisees came, saying to him, “Get out and leave here, for Herod wants to kill you”.
32 📚✭And he said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Look, I drive out demons, and I perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I will reach the goal.’ 33 📚✭Nevertheless I must go on today, and tomorrow, and the following day, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish out of Jerusalem.
Jesus expresses sorrow over Jerusalem
34 📚“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to you, how often I would have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under its wings, and you were not willing! 35 📚Now your house is left to you desolate; and truly I say to you, you will not see me until the time comes when you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’ ”