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Luke 13:11Now there were some present on that occasion who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 4:17-18Lam 2:20Acts 5:37Ezek 9:5-7Matt 27:2
Luke 13:22He answered them, “Do you think these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered these things?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 9:2Acts 28:4Job 22:5-16Luke 13:4
Luke 13:33No, I tell you! But unless you repent, you will all perish as well!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 3:19Matt 3:2Acts 2:38-40Luke 13:5Rev 2:21-22Luke 21:22-24Luke 23:28-30Matt 12:45Luke 24:47Matt 23:35-38
Luke 13:44Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower in Siloam fell on them, do you think they were worse offenders than all the others who live in Jerusalem?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 3:15Job 1:19Matt 6:12Matt 18:24
Luke 13:55No, I tell you! But unless you repent you will all perish as well!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 18:30Luke 13:3Isa 28:10-13
Luke 13:66Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 15:16Gal 5:22Isa 5:1-4Matt 21:19-20Jer 2:21Mark 11:12-14Ps 80:8-13Phil 4:17Matt 21:34-40Luke 20:10-14
Luke 13:77So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, ‘For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?’Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 7:19John 15:6Luke 3:9John 15:2Rom 2:4-5Exod 32:10Lev 19:23Matt 3:9-10Dan 4:14Lev 25:21
Luke 13:88But the worker answered him, ‘Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer on it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 10:12 Pet 3:9Joel 2:17Exod 34:9Jer 15:1Josh 7:7-9Ps 106:23Rom 11:14Jer 14:7-9Jer 18:20
Luke 13:99Then if it bears fruit next year, very well, but if not, you can cut it down.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 15:2Heb 6:81 Thess 2:15Ezra 9:14-15Ps 69:22-28Dan 9:5-8Rev 16:5-7Rev 15:3-4
Luke 13:1010Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 4:23Luke 4:44Luke 4:15-16
Luke 13:1111and a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten herself up completely.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 8:2Luke 13:16Luke 8:27Luke 8:43Acts 4:22Mark 9:21Ps 6:2John 5:5-6Matt 9:32-33Acts 3:2
Luke 13:1212When Jesus saw her, he called her to him and said, “Woman, you are freed from your infirmity.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 107:20Matt 8:16Isa 65:1Joel 3:10Luke 13:16Luke 6:8-10
Luke 13:1313Then he placed his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 107:20-22Mark 16:18Mark 5:23Luke 4:40Mark 6:5Mark 8:25Ps 103:1-5Ps 116:16-17Luke 17:14-17Luke 18:43
Luke 13:1414But the president of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, “There are six days on which work should be done! So come and be healed on those days, and not on the Sabbath day.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 20:9John 9:14-16Matt 12:2John 5:15-16Luke 14:3-6Luke 6:11Luke 6:7Luke 8:41Mark 5:22Acts 13:15
Luke 13:1515Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from its stall, and lead it to water?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 14:5John 7:21-24Acts 13:9-10Luke 6:42Acts 8:20-23Isa 29:20Job 34:30Luke 12:1Matt 15:14Matt 15:7
Luke 13:1616Then shouldn’t this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be released from this imprisonment on the Sabbath day?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 2:27Luke 19:9Luke 3:82 Tim 2:26Acts 13:26John 8:44Luke 13:11-12Matt 4:10Rom 4:12-16Luke 16:24
Luke 13:1717When he said this all his adversaries were humiliated, but the entire crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things he was doing.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 3:16Ps 132:182 Tim 3:9Acts 3:9-11Acts 4:21Exod 15:11Isa 4:2Isa 45:24John 12:17-18Luke 14:6
Luke 13:1818Thus Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? To what should I compare it?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 4:30-34Luke 17:21Matt 13:31-32Luke 13:20Mark 4:26Matt 13:24Lam 2:13Luke 7:31
Luke 13:1919It is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the wild birds nested in its branches.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 4:12Dan 2:44-45Dan 4:21Ezek 17:22-24Mark 4:31-32Matt 13:31-32Zech 2:11Acts 2:41Acts 4:4Dan 2:34-35
Luke 13:2020Again he said, “To what should I compare the kingdom of God?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Luke 13:2121It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all the dough had risen.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 13:331 Cor 5:61 Thess 5:23-24Jas 1:21John 15:2John 4:14Phil 1:6Phil 1:9-11Prov 4:18Hos 6:3
Luke 13:2222Then Jesus traveled throughout towns and villages, teaching and making his way toward Jerusalem.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 9:51Matt 9:35Mark 10:32-34Luke 4:43-44Acts 10:38Mark 6:6
Luke 13:2323Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?” So he said to them,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 7:14Matt 22:14John 21:21-22Luke 12:13-15Matt 20:16Matt 24:3-5Acts 1:7-8Luke 21:7-8Mark 13:4-5Matt 19:25
Luke 13:2424“Exert every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 7:13-142 Pet 1:101 Cor 9:24-27Heb 4:11Luke 21:36Ezek 33:31Phil 2:12-13Prov 21:25Col 1:29John 6:27
Luke 13:2525Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, then you will stand outside and start to knock on the door and beg him, ‘Lord, let us in!’ But he will answer you, ‘I don’t know where you come from.’Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 13:27Matt 25:10-12Matt 7:21-23Luke 6:46Isa 55:62 Cor 6:2Heb 12:17Heb 3:7-8Matt 25:41Ps 32:6
Luke 13:2626Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 58:2Titus 1:162 Tim 3:5
Luke 13:2727But he will reply, ‘I don’t know where you come from! Go away from me, all you evildoers!’Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 6:8Matt 25:41Matt 7:22-23Ps 119:115Ps 1:62 Tim 2:19Hos 9:12Luke 13:25Ps 5:6Matt 25:12
Luke 13:2828There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves thrown out.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 8:11-12Matt 22:13Matt 25:30Luke 14:15Luke 16:23Luke 23:42-43Matt 13:42Matt 13:50Matt 24:51Rev 21:8
Luke 13:2929Then people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and take their places at the banquet table in the kingdom of God.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 43:6Isa 49:6Isa 66:18-20Mal 1:11Isa 54:2-3Acts 28:28Eph 3:6-8Mark 13:27Rev 7:9-10Col 1:23
Luke 13:3030But indeed, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 19:30Mark 10:31Matt 20:16Matt 21:28-31Matt 3:9-10Matt 8:11-12
Luke 13:3131At that time, some Pharisees came up and said to Jesus, “Get away from here, because Herod wants to kill you.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 6:9-11Amos 7:12-13Matt 14:1Ps 11:1-2
Luke 13:3232But he said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Look, I am casting out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete my work.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 2:10Heb 5:9John 17:4-5John 11:8-10Ezek 13:4Luke 9:7-9Heb 7:28John 10:32Luke 23:8-11Mark 6:14
Luke 13:3333Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, because it is impossible that a prophet should be killed outside Jerusalem.’Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 9:53Matt 21:11John 4:34Matt 20:18Acts 13:27John 12:35John 9:4Acts 10:38John 11:54John 11:9
Luke 13:3434O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 23:37-39Deut 32:11-12Acts 7:52Isa 30:15Luke 19:41-42Hos 11:2Jer 6:16Jer 7:23-24Luke 23:28Ruth 2:12
Luke 13:3535Look, your house is forsaken! And I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! ’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 118:26Mark 11:9-10John 12:13Matt 21:9Hos 3:4-5Isa 52:7John 12:35-36John 14:19-23Acts 6:13-14Dan 9:26-27
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