Luke 13, 22-30

Through towns and villages he went teaching, making his way to Jerusalem.  Someone said to him, ‘Sir, will there be only a few saved?’ He said to them,  ‘Try your hardest to enter by the narrow door, because, I tell you, many will try to enter and will not succeed.  ‘Once the master of the house has got up and locked the door, you may find yourself standing outside knocking on the door, saying, “Lord, open to us,” but he willwillwill reply, “I do not know where you come from; away from me, all evil doers!”  ‘Then there will be weeping and grinding of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrown out.   … Read more »

Luke 13, 18-21

He went on to say, ‘What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it with?  It is like a mustard seed which a man took and threw into his garden: it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air sheltered in its branches.’  Again he said, ‘What shall I compare the kingdom of God with?   … Read more »

Luke 13, 10-17

One Sabbath day he was teaching in one of the synagogues, and there before him was a womanspirit that crippled her; she was bent double and quite unable to stand upright.  When Jesus saw her he called her over and said, ‘Woman, you are freed from your disability,’ and he laid his hands on her. And at once she straightened up, and she glorified God.   … Read more »

Luke 18, 9-14

He spoke the following parable to some people who prided themselves on being upright and despised everyone else,  ‘Two men went up to the Temple to pray, one a Pharisee, the other a tax collector.  The Pharisee stood there and said this prayer to himself, “I thank you, God, that I am not grasping, unjust, adulterous like everyone else, and particularly that I am not like this tax collector here.   … Read more »

Luke 13, 1-9

It was just about this time that some people arrived and told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with that of their sacrifices. At this he said to them,  ‘Do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than any others, that this should have happened to them?  They were not, I tell you… Read more »

Luke 12, 54-59

He said again to the crowds, ‘When you see a cloud looming up in the west you say at once that rain is coming, and so it does.  And when the wind is from the south you say it’s going to be hot, and it is.  Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the face of the earth and the sky… Read more »

Luke 12, 49-53

‘I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already!  There is a baptism I must still receive, and what constraint I am under until it is completed!  ‘Do you suppose that I am here to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.  For from now on, a household of five will be divided: three against two and two against three;  father opposed to son, son to father, mother to daughter, daughter to mother, mother-in-law to daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law to mother-in-law.’

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Luke 12, 39-48

You may be quite sure of this, that if the householder had known at what time the burglar would come, he would not have let anyone break through the wall of his house.  You too must stand ready, because the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.’  Peter said, ‘Lord, do you mean this parable for us, or for everyone?’  The Lord replied, ‘Who, then, is the wise and trustworthy steward whom the master will place over his household to give them at the proper time their allowance of food?   … Read more »

Luke 12, 35-38

‘See that you have your belts done up and your lamps lit.  Be like people waiting for their master to return from the wedding feast, ready to open the door as soon as he comes and knocks.  Blessed those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. In truth I tell you, he will do up his belt, sit them down at table and wait on them.   … Read more »

Luke 10, 1-9

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them out ahead of him in pairs, to all the towns and places he himself would be visiting.  And he said to them, ‘The harvest is rich but the labourers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to do his harvesting.  Start off now, but look, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.   … Read more »