Luke 13

1Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.Cross-references: Lam 2:20 · Ezek 9:5 · Matt 27:2 · Acts 5:37 · 1Pet 4:17

2Jesus answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things?Cross-references: Job 22:5 · Luke 13:4 · John 9:2 · Acts 28:4

3I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.Cross-references: Matt 3:2 · Matt 3:10 · Matt 12:45 · Matt 22:7 · Matt 23:35 · Matt 24:21 · +8 more

4Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them—do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?Cross-references: 1Ki 20:30 · Neh 3:15 · Job 1:19 · Matt 6:12 · Matt 18:24 · Luke 7:41 · +3 more

5I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”Cross-references: Isa 28:10 · Ezek 18:30 · Luke 13:3

6He spoke this parable. “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.Cross-references: Ps 80:8 · Isa 5:1 · Jer 2:21 · Matt 21:19 · Matt 21:34 · Mark 11:12 · +4 more

7He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down! Why does it waste the soil?’Cross-references: Ex 32:10 · Lev 19:23 · Lev 25:21 · Dan 4:14 · Matt 3:9 · Matt 7:19 · +4 more

8He answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.Cross-references: Ex 32:11 · Ex 32:30 · Ex 34:9 · Num 14:11 · Josh 7:7 · Ps 106:23 · +8 more

9If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’”Cross-references: Ezra 9:14 · Ps 69:22 · Dan 9:5 · John 15:2 · 1Thess 2:15 · Heb 6:8 · +2 more

10He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day.Cross-references: Matt 4:23 · Luke 4:15 · Luke 4:44

11Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. She was bent over and could in no way straighten herself up.Cross-references: Job 2:7 · Ps 6:2 · Ps 38:6 · Ps 42:5 · Ps 145:14 · Ps 146:8 · +11 more

12When Jesus saw her, he called her and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your infirmity.”Cross-references: Ps 107:20 · Isa 65:1 · Joel 3:10 · Matt 8:16 · Luke 6:8 · Luke 13:16

13He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight and glorified God.Cross-references: Ps 103:1 · Ps 107:20 · Ps 116:16 · Mark 5:23 · Mark 6:5 · Mark 8:25 · +5 more

14The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, “There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!”Cross-references: Ex 20:9 · Ex 23:12 · Lev 23:3 · Ezek 20:12 · Matt 12:2 · Matt 12:10 · +12 more

15Therefore the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath and lead him away to water?Cross-references: Job 34:30 · Prov 11:9 · Isa 29:20 · Matt 7:5 · Matt 15:7 · Matt 15:14 · +8 more

16Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”Cross-references: Matt 4:10 · Mark 2:27 · Luke 3:8 · Luke 13:11 · Luke 16:24 · Luke 19:9 · +4 more

17As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed; and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.Cross-references: Ex 15:11 · Ps 40:14 · Ps 109:29 · Ps 111:3 · Ps 132:18 · Isa 4:2 · +11 more

18He said, “What is God’s Kingdom like? To what shall I compare it?Cross-references: Lam 2:13 · Matt 13:24 · Matt 13:31 · Mark 4:26 · Mark 4:30 · Luke 7:31 · +2 more

19It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his own garden. It grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky live in its branches.”Cross-references: Ps 72:16 · Song 4:12 · Song 4:16 · Song 6:2 · Song 8:13 · Isa 2:2 · +30 more

20Again he said, “To what shall I compare God’s Kingdom?

21It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.”Cross-references: Job 17:9 · Ps 92:13 · Prov 4:18 · Hos 6:3 · Matt 13:33 · John 4:14 · +6 more

22He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and traveling on to Jerusalem.Cross-references: Matt 9:35 · Mark 6:6 · Mark 10:32 · Luke 4:43 · Luke 9:51 · Acts 10:38

23One said to him, “Lord, are they few who are saved?” He said to them,Cross-references: Matt 7:14 · Matt 19:25 · Matt 20:16 · Matt 22:14 · Matt 24:3 · Mark 13:4 · +4 more

24“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.Cross-references: Gen 32:25 · Prov 1:24 · Prov 14:6 · Prov 21:25 · Eccl 10:15 · Isa 1:15 · +17 more

25When once the master of the house has risen up and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’Cross-references: Gen 7:16 · Ps 32:6 · Isa 55:6 · Matt 7:21 · Matt 25:10 · Matt 25:41 · +5 more

26Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’Cross-references: Isa 58:2 · 2Tim 3:5 · Titus 1:16

27He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’Cross-references: Ps 1:6 · Ps 5:6 · Ps 6:8 · Ps 28:3 · Ps 101:8 · Ps 119:115 · +9 more

28There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.Cross-references: Ps 112:10 · Matt 8:11 · Matt 13:42 · Matt 13:50 · Matt 22:13 · Matt 24:51 · +9 more

29They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in God’s Kingdom.Cross-references: Gen 28:14 · Isa 43:6 · Isa 49:6 · Isa 54:2 · Isa 66:18 · Mal 1:11 · +7 more

30Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last.”Cross-references: Matt 3:9 · Matt 8:11 · Matt 19:30 · Matt 20:16 · Matt 21:28 · Mark 10:31

31On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, “Get out of here and go away, for Herod wants to kill you.”Cross-references: Neh 6:9 · Ps 11:1 · Amos 7:12 · Matt 14:1 · Luke 3:1

32He said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I complete my mission.Cross-references: Ezek 13:4 · Mic 3:1 · Zeph 3:3 · Mark 6:14 · Mark 6:26 · Luke 3:19 · +9 more

33Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, for it can’t be that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem.’Cross-references: Matt 20:18 · Matt 21:11 · Luke 9:53 · John 4:34 · John 9:4 · John 11:9 · +4 more

34“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!Cross-references: Deut 5:29 · Deut 32:11 · Deut 32:29 · Ruth 2:12 · 2Chr 24:21 · 2Chr 36:15 · +39 more

35Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”Cross-references: Lev 26:31 · Ps 69:25 · Ps 118:26 · Isa 1:7 · Isa 5:5 · Isa 40:9 · +22 more