Luke 13:10-21

Christian Standard Bible

Healing a Daughter of Abraham

¹⁰ As he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath,^{(A) 11} a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit^[a](B) for over eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.^{[b] 12} When Jesus saw her, he called out to her,^[c] “Woman, you are free of your disability.” ¹³ Then he laid his hands on her,^(C) and instantly she was restored^(D) and began to glorify God.^(E)

¹⁴ But the leader of the synagogue, indignant^(F) because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded by telling the crowd, “There are six days when work should be done;^(G) therefore come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day.”

¹⁵ But the Lord answered him and said, “Hypocrites!^(H) Doesn’t each one of you untie his ox^(I) or donkey from the feeding trough^(J) on the Sabbath and lead it to water?^{(K) 16} Satan^(L) has bound^(M) this woman, a daughter of Abraham,^(N) for eighteen years—shouldn’t she be untied from this bondage^[d] on the Sabbath day?”

¹⁷ When he had said these things, all his adversaries^(O) were humiliated,^(P) but the whole crowd was rejoicing over all the glorious things he was doing.^(Q)

The Parables of the Mustard Seed and of the Leaven

¹⁸ He said, therefore, “What is the kingdom of God like,^(R) and what can I compare it to? ¹⁹ It’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.”

²⁰ Again he said, “What can I compare the kingdom of God^(S) to? ²¹ It’s like leaven^[e](T) that a woman took and mixed into fifty pounds^[f] of flour until all of it was leavened.”