And answering, Jesus said to them, "Do you* think that these Galileans were sinners more than all the [other] Galileans, because they have suffered such [things]?
"Or those, the eighteen, on whom the lookout tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you* think that these were debtors more [fig., worse sinners] than all the [other] people dwelling in Jerusalem?
Then He spoke this allegory: "A certain [man] had a fig tree having been planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find [any].
"Then he said to the vineyard-keeper, 'Look! Three years I [have] come looking for fruit in this fig tree and do not find [any]. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground?'
And look! [There] was a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she [was] bent double and [was] not being able to straighten up to the completion [fig., at all].
But the synagogue leader answering (being indignant that Jesus healed on the Sabbath), began saying to the crowd, "There are six days in which it is necessary [for us] to be working. Therefore, on these [days] [be] coming [and] getting healed, and not on the day of the Sabbath."
Then the Lord answered him and said, "Hypocrites! Does not each [one] of you* on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey from the stall, and having led [it] away, give [it] water?
"But this [woman], being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan indeed bound eighteen years, it was necessary [for her] to be released from this bond on the day of the Sabbath, was it not?"
And when He said these [things] all the ones opposing Him were being put to shame, and the whole crowd was rejoicing over all the glorious [things], the ones being done by Him.
"It is like a grain of mustard [or, mustard seed], which a man having taken, put into his garden, and it grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches."
"It is like leaven [or, yeast], which a woman having taken, hid [or, mixed] into three satons [about 36 quarts or 40 liters] of wheat flour until it was all leavened."
"From whatever [time] the Master of the house is risen up and shuts the door, and* you begin to have stood outside and to be knocking at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us,' and answering, He will say to you*, 'I do not know you*, where you* are from.'
"In that place [there] will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you* see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you* yourselves being thrown out outside!
And He said to them, "Having gone, say to this fox, 'Look! I am casting out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and the third [day] I am being perfected.'
"Nevertheless, it is necessary [for] Me to be traveling today and tomorrow and the following [day], because it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the [city] killing the prophets and stoning the ones having been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather together your children [by] which manner [fig., just as] a hen [gathers] her brood [of chicks] under her wings, and you* did want [to].
"Look! Your* house is being left to you* desolate. But, I say to you*, by no means shall you* see Me until [the time] comes when you* shall say, 'Having been blessed [is] the One coming in [the] name of the LORD.'" [Psalm 118:26]