15. The Lord said to him in reply, “Hypocrites! Does not each one of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his ass from the manger and lead it out for watering?
16. This daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound for eighteen years now, ought she not to have been set free on the sabbath day from this bondage?”
17. When he said this, all his adversaries were humiliated; and the whole crowd rejoiced at all the splendid deeds done by him.
18. Then he said, “What is the kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it?
19. It is like a mustard seed that a person took and planted in the garden. When it was fully grown, it became a large bush and ‘the birds of the sky dwelt in its branches.’”
20. Again he said, “To what shall I compare the kingdom of God?
21. It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed [in] with three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch of dough was leavened.”
22. He passed through towns and villages, teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem.
23. Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?” He answered them,
24. “Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough.
25. After the master of the house has arisen and locked the door, then will you stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ He will say to you in reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’
26. And you will say, ‘We ate and drank in your company and you taught in our streets.’
27. Then he will say to you, ‘I do not know where [you] are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers!’
28. And there will be wailing and grinding of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God and you yourselves cast out.
29. And people will come from the east and the west and from the north and the south and will recline at table in the kingdom of God.