25Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Sir, open the door for us.’ “But he will answer, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’
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
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