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    Luke 13

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    A man can eat and drink with the master, hear him teach in the streets, and still meet a shut door with the master saying, “I do not know where you are from.”

    The tower, the tree, and the extra yearvv. 1–9

    Pilate has mixed Galilean blood with sacrifices, and a tower at Siloam has killed exactly eighteen people. Jesus refuses to turn either calamity into a neat ranking of sinners: the number is given, the reason is not. Then comes a fig tree with three fruitless years behind it and one more year granted, complete with digging and fertilizing before the axe gets its say.

    A healing, and an unexpectedly practical objectionvv. 10–21

    In a synagogue, Jesus straightens a woman who has been bent double for eighteen years, and she glorifies God. The synagogue leader objects to the Sabbath healing, but his rebuke rather wonderfully includes a timetable: healing is welcome on six other days. Jesus answers with oxen, donkeys, and the claim that this daughter of Abraham ought not remain bound; the crowd rejoices while his adversaries are humiliated. The kingdom then appears as a mustard seed becoming a tree and as leaven quietly working through three measures of flour.

    The narrow door and the foxvv. 22–35

    On the road toward Jerusalem, Jesus is asked whether only a few will be saved. His answer supplies a narrow door, a master who shuts it, and rejected guests who protest that they ate and drank with him and heard him teach. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the prophets are inside, while people arrive from every direction; the first and last exchange places with suspicious ease. Pharisees then warn that Herod wants Jesus dead. Jesus sends a message to that fox, continues his work, and speaks over Jerusalem with the tenderness of a hen and the bleakness of a deserted house.

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    1. Luke 13:1At that time some of those present told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

    2. Luke 13:2To this He replied, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered this way?

    3. Luke 13:3No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.

    4. Luke 13:4Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think that they were more sinful than all the others living in Jerusalem?

    5. Luke 13:5No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”

    6. Luke 13:6Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it but did not find any.

    7. Luke 13:7So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’

    8. Luke 13:8‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone again this year, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

    9. Luke 13:9If it bears fruit next year, fine. But if not, you can cut it down.’”

    10. Luke 13:10One Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues,

    11. Luke 13:11and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight.

    12. Luke 13:12When Jesus saw her, He called her over and said, “Woman, you are set free from your disability.”

    13. Luke 13:13Then He placed His hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and began to glorify God.

    14. Luke 13:14But the synagogue leader was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. “There are six days for work,” he told the crowd. “So come and be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath.”

    15. Luke 13:15“You hypocrites!” the Lord replied. “Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it to water?

    16. Luke 13:16Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?”

    17. Luke 13:17When Jesus said this, all His adversaries were humiliated. And the whole crowd rejoiced at all the glorious things He was doing.

    18. Luke 13:18Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it?

    19. Luke 13:19It is like a mustard seed that a man tossed into his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches.”

    20. Luke 13:20Again He asked, “To what can I compare the kingdom of God?

    21. Luke 13:21It is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”

    22. Luke 13:22Then Jesus traveled throughout the towns and villages, teaching as He made His way toward Jerusalem.

    23. Luke 13:23“Lord,” someone asked Him, “will only a few people be saved?” Jesus answered,

    24. Luke 13:24“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.

    25. Luke 13:25After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’

    26. Luke 13:26Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’

    27. Luke 13:27And he will answer, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers.’

    28. Luke 13:28There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are thrown out.

    29. Luke 13:29People will come from east and west and north and south, and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God.

    30. Luke 13:30And indeed, some who are last will be first, and some who are first will be last.”

    31. Luke 13:31At that very hour, some Pharisees came to Jesus and told Him, “Leave this place and get away, because Herod wants to kill You.”

    32. Luke 13:32But Jesus replied, “Go tell that fox, ‘Look, I will keep driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach My goal.’

    33. Luke 13:33Nevertheless, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not admissible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.

    34. Luke 13:34O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

    35. Luke 13:35Look, your house is left to you desolate. And I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

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    • 24Matthew 7:13–14Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
    • 6John 15:16You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
    • 242 Peter 1:10Therefore, brothers, strive to make your calling and election sure. For if you practice these things you will never stumble,
    • 3Acts 3:19Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,
    • 6Isaiah 5:1–4I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
    • 6Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
    • 34Matthew 23:37–39O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
    • 6Matthew 21:19–20Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered.
    • 7Matthew 7:19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
    • 35Psalms 118:26Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD. From the house of the LORD we bless you.
    • 3Matthew 3:2and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
    • 23Matthew 7:14But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.
    • 241 Corinthians 9:24–27Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.
    • 6Jeremiah 2:21I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
    • 24Hebrews 4:11Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.
    • 34Deuteronomy 32:11–12As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions.

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