Luke 13
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Repent or Perish
1At that time, # 13:1 Mt 21:18–19; Mk 11:12–14 some people came and reported to him about the Galileans # 13:1 Jn 4:45 whose blood Pilate # 13:1 Mt 27:2 had mixed with their sacrifices. 2And he # 13:2 Other mss read Jesus responded to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all the other Galileans because they suffered these things? # 13:2 Jn 9:2 3No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as well. 4Or those eighteen that the tower in Siloam # 13:4 Jn 9:7 fell on and killed — do you think they were more sinful than all the other people who live in Jerusalem? 5No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as well.”
The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree
6And he told this parable: # 13:6 Lk 5:35; 12:16 “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He came looking for fruit on it and found none. # 13:6 Mt 21:18–19; Mk 11:13 7He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! # 13:7 Mt 7:19; Lk 3:9; Jn 15:2; Rm 11:22 Why should it even waste the soil? ’ # 13:7 Is 5:2
8 “But he replied to him, ‘Sir, # 13:8 Or Lord leave it this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it. # 13:8 Lk 16:3 9Perhaps it will produce fruit next year, but if not, you can cut it down.’ ”
Healing a Daughter of Abraham
10As he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath, # 13:10 Lk 4:31; 6:6 11a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit # 13:11 Lit had a spirit of disability,# 13:11 Mt 8:17; Lk 4:33; 6:18; 7:21; 8:2,29; 9:39 for over eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. # 13:11 Or straighten up completely 12When Jesus saw her, he called out to her, # 13:12 Or he summoned her “Woman, you are free of your disability.” 13Then he laid his hands on her, # 13:13 Mt 19:15; Mk 5:23; 6:2,5; 8:23; Lk 4:40 and instantly she was restored # 13:13 Ac 15:16; Heb 12:12 and began to glorify God. # 13:13 Jn 11:4
14But the leader of the synagogue, indignant # 13:14 Mt 20:24; 21:15; 26:8; Mk 10:14,41; 14:4 because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded by telling the crowd, “There are six days when work should be done; # 13:14 Ex 20:9; Ezk 46:1 therefore come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day.”
15But the Lord answered him and said, “Hypocrites! # 13:15 Lk 6:42 Doesn’t each one of you untie his ox # 13:15 Lk 14:5,19; 1Co 9:9 or donkey from the feeding trough # 13:15 Lk 2:7,12,16 on the Sabbath and lead it to water? # 13:15 Mt 12:11; Lk 14:5 16Satan # 13:16 Mt 4:1,10; Ac 13:10 has bound # 13:16 Mk 5:3; 15:1; 2Tm 2:9 this woman, a daughter of Abraham, # 13:16 Gn 16:15; Jn 8:37; Heb 2:16 for eighteen years — shouldn’t she be untied from this bondage # 13:16 Or isn’t it necessary that she be untied from this bondage on the Sabbath day? ”
17When he had said these things, all his adversaries # 13:17 Lk 21:5; 1Co 16:9; Php 1:28; 1Tm 5:14 were humiliated, # 13:17 Ps 132:18; Is 45:16 LXX; 1Pt 3:16 but the whole crowd was rejoicing over all the glorious things he was doing. # 13:17 Is 12:5
The Parables of the Mustard Seed and of the Leaven
18He said, therefore, “What is the kingdom of God like, # 13:18–19 Mt 13:31–32; Mk 4:30–32 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 # 13:20–21 Mt 13:33 to? 21It’s like leaven # 13:21 Or yeast,# 13:21 Mt 16:6,11–12; Mk 8:15; Lk 12:1; 1Co 5:6–8; Gl 5:9 that a woman took and mixed into fifty pounds # 13:21 Lit three sata; about forty liters of flour until all of it was leavened.”
The Narrow Way
22He went through one town and village after another, teaching and making his way to Jerusalem. # 13:22 Lk 9:51 23“Lord,” someone asked him, “are only a few people going to be saved? ” # 13:23 Mt 22:14; Lk 18:26; Ac 2:21; Rm 9:27; Eph 2:8; 1Pt 3:20; Rv 3:4
He said to them, 24“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, # 13:24 Mt 7:13–14 because I tell you, many will try to enter and won’t be able 25once the homeowner gets up and shuts the door. # 13:25 Mt 7:22–23; 10:33; 25:12 Then you will stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open up for us! ’ He will answer you, ‘I don’t know you or where you’re from.’ 26Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ 27But he will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know you or where you’re from. Get away from me, # 13:27 Ps 6:8; 2Tm 2:19; Heb 3:12 all you evildoers! ’ 28There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth # 13:28 Mt 13:42,50; 22:13; 24:51; 25:30 in that place, # 13:28–29 Mt 8:11–12 when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, # 13:28 Mk 1:15; Lk 4:43 but yourselves thrown out. 29They will come from east and west, from north and south, to share the banquet # 13:29 Lit recline at the table in the kingdom of God. 30Note this: Some who are last will be first, and some who are first will be last.” # 13:30 Mt 19:30; 20:16; Mk 10:31
Jesus and Herod Antipas
31At that time some Pharisees came and told him, “Go, get out of here. Herod # 13:31 Mt 14:1 wants to kill you.” # 13:31 Mt 14:5; Mk 6:19; Jn 7:19–25; Ac 5:33
32He said to them, “Go tell that fox, ‘Look, I’m driving out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete my work.’ # 13:32 Lit I will be finished,# 13:32 Heb 2:10; 5:9; 7:28 33Yet it is necessary that I # 13:33 Ac 3:21; 17:3 travel today, tomorrow, and the next day, because it is not possible for a prophet # 13:33 Mt 2:23; 21:11 to perish # 13:33 Mk 8:31 outside of Jerusalem.
Jesus’s Lamentation over Jerusalem
34 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, # 13:34–35 Mt 23:37–39; Lk 19:41–44 who kills the prophets and stones # 13:34 Heb 11:37 those who are sent to her. # 13:34 2Ch 24:20–22; Mt 21:35; Lk 20:15 How often I wanted to gather your children # 13:34 Ps 147:2; Is 62:1,4 together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, # 13:34 Dt 32:11; Ps 17:8; 36:7 but you were not willing! # 13:34 Jn 5:40 35See, your house is abandoned to you. # 13:35 Is 64:11; Jr 12:7; 22:1–8 I tell you, you will not see me until the time comes when # 13:35 Other mss omit the time comes when you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord’! ” # 13:35 Ps 118:26; Mt 21:9; Lk 19:38; Jn 12:13,# 13:35 Ps 118:26
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Lukas 13
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1Now on the same occasion there were some present reporting to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach about the men of the Galil whose blood Pilate mixed with their zevakhim (sacrifices). 2And, in reply, Moshiach said, Do you think that these men of the Galil were greater chote'im (sinners) than all others of the Galil, because they suffered this shud (misfortune)? 3Lo (no), I say, but unless you make teshuva, you will all likewise perish. 4Or do you think that those shmonah asar (eighteen) upon whom the migdal (tower) in Shiloach fell and killed them, do you think that they were greater chote'im (sinners) than all the Bnei Adam living in Yerushalayim? 5Lo (no), I tell you, but unless you make teshuva, you will all likewise perish.
6And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was speaking this mashal. A certain man had an etz te'enah (fig tree) which had been planted in his kerem, and he came seeking pri (fruit) on it, and he did not find any.#13:6 Isa 5:2; Jer 8:13 7So he said to the keeper of the kerem, Hinei shalosh shanim (three years) I come seeking pri on this etz te'enah (fig tree) and I do not find any. Therefore, cut it down! Why is it even using up the adamah (ground)? 8But in reply he says to him, Adoni, leave it also this year, until I may dig around it and may throw fertilizer on it, 9And if indeed it produces pri in the future, tov me'od (very well); otherwise, you will cut down it.#13:9 Ro 11:23
10Now in one of the shuls Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying shiurim on Shabbos. 11And an isha which had a ruach hamachla (a spirit of an infirmity, illness) shmonah asar (eighteen) years was bent double and was not able to straighten up at all. 12And when he saw her, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach called out to her and said, Isha (Woman), you have been set free from your machla (illness). 13And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach placed his hands upon her. And ofen ort (immediately) she was straightened and she was crying, Baruch Hashem! 14And in reply the Rosh of the Beit HaKnesset, being indignant that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had given refuah (healing) on Shabbos, was saying to the multitude, There are sheshah yamim (six days) in which melachah (work) should be done; therefore, come during those sheshah yamim and get your refuah; but not on Shabbos!#13:14 Ex 20:9 15But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu answered him and said, Tzevu'im! Does not each of you on Shabbos untie his ox or his donkey from the evus (animal feeding trough) and lead it away to water him? 16But ought not this isha, a bat Avraham Avinu as she is, whom HaSatan has bound hinei, nebbach (regrettably) these shmonah asar (eighteen) long years — should she not have been set free from this bond on Shabbos? 17And as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said these things, all his mitnaggedim (opponents) were put to bushah (shame), and all the multitude was having simcha with chedvah (rejoicing) over all the things of kavod being accomplished by him.#13:17 Isa 66:5
18Therefore, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying, What is the Malchut Hashem like? And to what shall I make a tzushtel (comparison) of it? 19It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and threw into his own garden, and it grew and became an etz (tree), and the OPH HASHOMAYIM nested in its branches.
20And again Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, To what shall I compare the Malchut Hashem? 21It is like se'or (leaven), which an isha took and hid in shalosh (three) measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened.
22And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was itinerating throughout the shtetlach (towns) and villages saying shiurim and heading on toward Yerushalayim. 23And someone said to him, Adoni, are there only a few coming to Yeshu'at Eloheinu? And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, 24Strive to enter through the sha'ar hatzarut (gate of narrowness), because many, I say to you, will seek to enter and they will not be able to. 25After the Baal Bayit gets up and shuts the delet, and you begin to stand outside and to knock on the delet, saying, Adoneinu, open up for us! And in reply, he will say to you, I do not have daas of you; from where are you from? 26Then you will begin to say, We ate and drank in your presence, and in our rekhovot (streets) you taught. 27And he will speak, saying to you, I do not know you, from where are you from? Go away from me, kol po'alei resha (all workers of evil)! 28There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you will see Avraham Avinu and Yitzchak and Ya'akov and all the Neviim in the Malchut Hashem, but you yourselves being thrown out. 29And they will come from mizrach (east) and maarav (west) and from tzafon (north) and darom (south) and they will be the ones bimesibba (reclining at tish) in the Malchut Hashem. 30And there are some acharonim who will be rishonim and there are some rishonim who will be acharonim.
31In the same hour some Perushim approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying to him, Depart and go from here, because Herod wants to kill you. 32And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Go and tell that fox, Hinei, I cast out shedim and I accomplish refuot (healings) hayom (today) and makhar (tomorrow) and Yom HaShlishi (The Third Day) I reach my goal. 33Nevertheless, it is necessary for me to travel on hayom (today) and makhar (tomorrow) and the yom following, because it cannot be that a navi should have his violent death and his histalkus (passing) outside Yerushalayim. 34O Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim, she who kills the Neviim and stones the ones sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your yeladim just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing! 35Hinei your Beis#13:35 HaMikdash is left to you desolate; and I say to you, you shall by no means see me until the zman (time) comes when you say, BARUCH HABAH B'SHEM ADONAI!#13:35 Jer 12:17; Ps 118:26; Ro 11:26
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