Luke 13 — Greek text and reception
Each card preserves the Greek reading and its textual and reception notes. This source provides a Greek study edition; Hebrew counterparts and Hebrew–Greek classifications are not supplied.
Chapter 13
Repentance, release, and the road to Jerusalem
Verse 13:1
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At that very time some people were present who told Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
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Verse 13:2
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And He answered them, “Do you think these Galileans were greater sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered these things?
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Verse 13:3
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No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
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Verse 13:4
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Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them—do you think they were greater debtors than all the people living in Jerusalem?
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ὀφειλέται literally means debtors, here in a comparison of culpability. ‘Debtors’ preserves its connection with the debt language of eleven:four.
Verse 13:5
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No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”
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Verse 13:6
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And He told this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard. He came looking for fruit on it and found none.
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Verse 13:7
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So he said to the vineyard worker, ‘Behold, for three years I have been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and have found none. Cut it down! Why should it also render the ground unproductive?’
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NA28 reads ἔκκοψον [οὖν] αὐτήν (SBLGNT ἔκκοψον αὐτήν); the rendering above follows SBLGNT and would read “Cut it down, then!” under NA28 (collated against TAGNT edition marks, not a printed NA28 apparatus).
Verse 13:8
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But he answered him, ‘Master, leave it this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure.
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Verse 13:9
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And if it produces fruit in the coming year—but if not, you shall cut it down.’”
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The Greek leaves the positive outcome elliptical: ‘and if it bears fruit in the coming [year]—’. The unfinished clause is retained; ‘well and good’ would supply what is only implied.
Verse 13:10
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Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.
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Verse 13:11
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And behold, there was a woman who had had a spirit of weakness for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up completely.
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‘Spirit of weakness’ follows πνεῦμα ἀσθενείας. The description does not provide a modern medical diagnosis. εἰς τὸ παντελές can mean completely or at all; ‘completely’ is the rendering adopted here.
Verse 13:12
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When Jesus saw her, He called to her and said, “Woman, you have been released from your weakness.”
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Verse 13:13
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And He laid His hands on her, and at once she was made straight, and she glorified God.
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Verse 13:14
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But the synagogue ruler, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, “There are six days on which work ought to be done. So come and be healed on those days, and not on the Sabbath day.”
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Verse 13:15
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But the Lord answered him, “Hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey from the manger and lead it away to give it water?
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The reply addresses plural ‘hypocrites,’ even though the synagogue ruler spoke in verse fourteen.
Verse 13:16
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And this woman, who is a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan bound for, behold, eighteen years—ought she not to have been released from this bond on the Sabbath day?”
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The sequence untie / released / bond preserves the repeated λύω root and binding imagery joining animal care with the woman’s liberation.
Verse 13:17
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As He said these things, all who opposed Him were put to shame, and the whole crowd rejoiced at all the glorious things being done by Him.
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Verse 13:18
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So He said, “What is the kingdom of God like, and to what shall I compare it?
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Verse 13:19
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It is like a mustard seed that a man took and cast into his own garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches.”
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Verse 13:20
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And again He said, “To what shall I compare the kingdom of God?
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Verse 13:21
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It is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three sata of flour, until the whole was leavened.”
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A saton is an ancient dry measure. The number three and the act of hiding leaven are retained without an estimated modern volume.
Verse 13:22
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And He traveled through cities and villages, teaching and making His journey toward Jerusalem.
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Verse 13:23
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Someone said to Him, “Lord, are those who are being saved few?” And He said to them,
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Verse 13:24
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“Strive to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able,
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‘Strive’ renders ἀγωνίζεσθε, an imperative of strenuous effort; the source speaks of a door, not a gate.
Verse 13:25
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once the master of the house rises and shuts the door. Then you will begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us!’ And he will answer you, ‘I do not know you or where you come from.’
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The householder’s speech belongs to the comparison; lower-case pronouns preserve the narrative speaker without forcing an identification into every expression.
Verse 13:26
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Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’
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Verse 13:27
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And he will say to you, ‘I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of unrighteousness!’
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NA28 reads οὐκ οἶδα [ὑμᾶς] πόθεν ἐστέ (SBLGNT οὐκ οἶδα πόθεν ἐστέ); the rendering above follows SBLGNT and would read “I do not know you, where you come from” under NA28 (collated against TAGNT edition marks, not a printed NA28 apparatus).
Verse 13:28
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There will be weeping and grinding of teeth there, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves being thrown outside.
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Verse 13:29
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And people will come from east and west and from north and south and recline at table in the kingdom of God.
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Verse 13:30
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And behold, there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be last.”
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Verse 13:31
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At that very hour some Pharisees approached and said to Him, “Leave and go away from here, because Herod wants to kill You.”
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Verse 13:32
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And He said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I drive out demons and accomplish healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I am brought to completion.’
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τελειοῦμαι is passive, ‘I am brought to completion,’ with the agent unexpressed. ‘I finish My work’ would change its grammar and supply an object.
Verse 13:33
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Nevertheless, I must travel today and tomorrow and the day following, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside Jerusalem.
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The saying’s absolute form is retained. No qualification or harmonization with the deaths of other prophets is inserted.
Verse 13:34
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Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children as a bird gathers her own brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
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ὄρνις is a bird, here a brooding mother bird; ‘hen’ is a more specific contextual rendering. The contrast between Jesus’ willing and the hearers’ unwillingness is explicit.
Verse 13:35
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Behold, your house is left to you. And I tell you, you will certainly not see Me until the time comes when you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’”
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The base reads ‘your house is left to you,’ without an adjective meaning desolate. The strong negative and future point of acclamation are retained.