Luke 13:1-17

Call to Repent

1 Now on the same occasion there were some present who reported to Him about the Galileans whose blood ¹Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

2 And Jesus said to them, "²Do you suppose that these Galileans were greater sinners than all other Galileans because they suffered this fate?

3 "I tell you, no, but unless * you repent, you will all likewise perish.

4 "Or do you suppose that those eighteen on whom the tower in ³Siloam fell and killed them were worse ⁴culprits than all the men who live in Jerusalem?

5 "I tell you, no, but unless * you repent, you will all likewise perish."

6 And He began telling this parable: "A man had ⁵a fig tree which had been planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find any.

7 "And he said to the vineyard-keeper, 'Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree without * finding any. ⁶Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground?'

8 "And he answered and said to him, 'Let it alone, sir, for this year too, until I dig around it and put in fertilizer;

9 and if it bears fruit next * year, fine; but if not, cut it down.' "

Healing on the Sabbath

10 And He was ⁷teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.

11 And there was a woman who for eighteen years had had ⁸a sickness caused by a spirit; and she was bent double, and could not straighten up at all.

12 When Jesus saw her, He called her over and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your sickness."

13 And He ⁹laid His hands on her; and immediately she was made erect again and began ¹⁰glorifying God.

14 But ¹¹the synagogue official, indignant because Jesus ¹²had healed on the Sabbath, began saying to the crowd in response, "¹³There are six days in which work should be done; so come during them and get healed, and not on the Sabbath day."

15 But ¹⁴the Lord answered him and said, "You hypocrites, ¹⁵does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the stall and lead him away to water him?

16 "And this woman, ¹⁶a daughter of Abraham as she is, whom ¹⁷Satan has bound for eighteen * long years, should she not have been released from this bond on the Sabbath day?"

17 As He said this, all His opponents were being humiliated; and ¹⁸the entire crowd was rejoicing over all the glorious things being done by Him.

Cross References

• 1. Matthew 27
• 2. John 9:2
• 3. Nehemiah 3:15; Isaiah 8:6; John 9:7, 11
• 4. Matthew 6:12; Luke 11:4
• 5. Matthew 21:19
• 6. Matthew 3:10; Matthew 7:19; Luke 3:9
• 7. Matthew 4:23
• 8. Luke 13:16
• 9. Mark 5:23
• 10. Matthew 9:8
• 11. Mark 5:22
• 12. Matthew 12:2; Luke 14:3
• 13. Exodus 20:9; Deuteronomy 5:13
• 14. Luke 7:13
• 15. Luke 14:5
• 16. Luke 19:9
• 17. Matthew 4:10; Luke 13:11
• 18. Luke 18:43

Footnotes

• [a]. I.e. shed along with
• [b]. Or "are repentant"
• [c]. Lit "debtors"
• [d]. Lit "and I do not find"