24ἀγωνίζεσθε εἰσελθεῖν διὰ τῆς στενῆς πύλης· ὅτι πολλοί, λέγω ὑμῖν, ζητήσουσιν εἰσελθεῖν καὶ οὐκ ἰσχύσουσιν.h
25ἀφ᾽ οὗ ἂν ἐγερθῇ ὁ οἰκοδεσπότης καὶ ἀποκλείσῃ τὴν θύραν, καὶ ἄρξησθε ἔξω ἑστάναι καὶ κρούειν τὴν θύραν λέγοντες· Κύριε Κύριε, ἄνοιξον ἡμῖν· καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς ἐρεῖ ὑμῖν, οὐκ οἶδα ὑμᾶς πόθεν ἐστέ.
Luke 13 pivots sharply from the comfort of kingdom teaching to the urgency of repentance. Jesus confronts the assumption that tragedy signals divine punishment, calls a crippled woman daughter of Abraham on the Sabbath, and warns that the kingdom comes like yeast or a mustard see
Byzantine Greek NT (Robinson-Pierpont 2005) Public Domain. Greek New Testament critical edition based on Byzantine majority text.
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