(Tap footnote to read it. Old Testament quotations are underlined. "Love" with a caret ("^love") is agapé.1"agapé" The Greek words ἀγάπη (agapé, noun), and ἀγαπάω (agapaó; verb) are typically translated "love". However, unlike our English word "love" – which primarily speaks of affection and feelings – agapé centers on choice and behavior. It’s the "love" based on will, choice, behavior, and action; not feelings. (Feelings-based love is the Greek word φιλέω (phileó), which properly means "brotherly love/affection".) Thus, you could hate someone passionately and still treat him with "agapé". Agapé "love" is best understood as the pursuit of what is most beneficial to someone or something, regardless of the cost to yourself or the type of response received from the person or thing. It can also indicate a preference for someone or something over other things. )
Repent or perish
- And some men were nearby at the same time, reporting to Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
- And answering, He told them: “Do you suppose that these Galileans were sinners more than all the Galileans because they *suffered these things?
- “I tell you, certainly not; but unless you repent, all of you will likewise perish.
- “Or those eighteen men on whom the tower of Siloam fell and killed them; do you suppose that they were debtors to sin more than all the men inhabiting Jerusalem?
- “I tell you, certainly not; but unless you repent, all of you will similarly perish.”
- And He was speaking this parable: “A man had a fig tree *planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and didn’t find any.
- “And he said to the gardener: Behold, from three years ago until now I come seeking fruit on this fig tree and don’t find any. Therefore cut it down, because why is it even wasting the ground?
- “And answering, he tells him: “Lord, leave it this year also until I dig around it and put manure around it.”
- “And if it indeed bears fruit in that time, it was merely delaying. But if otherwise, you will cut it down.”
Healing on the Sabbath
- And He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbaths.
- And behold, there was a woman having a spirit of weakness for 18 years. And she was bending over and not able to stand erect for the whole time.
- And having seen her, Jesus summoned her and told her: “Woman, you have been released from your weakness.”
- And He laid His hands on her, and she was instantly straightened, and she was glorifying God.
- And answering, the synagogue leader — being indignant because Jesus healed on the Sabbath — was telling the crowd: “There are six days in which it’s necessary to work. Therefore, be healed by coming on them, and not on the Sabbath day.”
- And the Lord answered him and said: “Hypocrites! On the Sabbath, doesn’t each of you release his ox or donkey from the feeding trough and lead it away to water it?
- “And this daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound — behold, for ten and eight years — wasn’t it necessary for her to be released from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”
- And after Him saying these things, all the men opposing Him were shamed, and everyone in the crowd was rejoicing at all the glorious things being done by Him.
- Therefore, He was saying: “To what is the kingdom of God similar? And to what will I compare it?”
- “It is similar to a mustard seed which a man took and threw into his own garden. And it grew, and became a tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches.”
- And again He said: “To what will I compare the kingdom of God?”
- “It’s similar to leaven, which having taken it, a woman hid in three measures of flour until the whole lump was leavened.”
Fight to enter the kingdom of God
- And He was passing through cities and villages, teaching and continuing His journey to Jerusalem.
- And one man said to Him: “Lord, are the men being saved few?” And He said to them:
- “Fight to enter in through the narrow door, because I tell you that many will seek to enter in and won’t be able,1“be able” could also be translated “be strong enough”. This is likely a parallel to the word “fight” at the beginning of the verse, which refers to military or athletic contest where strength and determination are key to success.
- “since the master of the house might be roused and might have shut the door, and you might begin to *stand outside and to knock at the door, saying: “Lord, open the door for us.” And answering, He will tell you: “I don’t *know you or where you’re from.”
- “Then you will begin to say: “We ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets.”
- “And He will speak, telling you: “I don’t *know you or where you’re from; depart from Me, all you workers without regard for God’s commands.”2 “without regard for God’s commands” is one word in Greek, and is more literally “ignorers of God’s law”. It’s a noun, and literally means “those who are without law”; i.e. those who – either by ignorance or by rebellion – don’t obey God’s (moral) law.
- “There will be wailing and grinding of teeth there when you see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you’re being thrown out.
- “And they will arrive from east and west, and from north and south, and they will recline at the table in the kingdom of God.
- “And behold: many are last who will be first, and many are first who will be last.”
- Some Pharisees approached in the same hour, telling Him: “Depart and travel away from here because Herod wants to kill you.”
- And He told them: “Depart and tell that fox: Behold, I cast out demons and accomplish healings today and tomorrow, and I’m perfected the third day.
- “Nevertheless, it’s necessary for Me to travel today, and tomorrow, and the following day, because it’s not permissible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.
- “Jerusalem, Jerusalem; the city slaying the prophets and stoning the men *sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children the way that a hen gathers her own chicks under her wings, and you didn’t want that.
- “Behold, your house is abandoned to you alone. And I tell you: you definitely won’t see Me until the time will arrive when you say: *Blessed is the One coming in the Lord’s name.
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