013:011 where a woman was present who for eighteen years had been a confirmed invalid: she was bent double, and was unable to lift herself to her full height. 013:012 But Jesus saw her, and calling to her, He said to her, "Woman, you are free from your weakness." 013:013 And He put His hands on her, and she immediately stood upright and began to give glory to God. 013:014 Then the Warden of the Synagogue, indignant that Jesus had cured her on a Sabbath, said to the crowd, "There are six days in the week on which people ought to work. On those days therefore come and get yourselves cured, and not on the Sabbath day." 013:015 But the Lord's reply to him was, "Hypocrites, does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his bullock or his ass from the stall and lead him to water? 013:016 And this woman, daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan had bound for no less than eighteen years, was she not to be loosed from this chain because it is the Sabbath day?" 013:017 When He had said this, all His opponents were ashamed, while the whole multitude was delighted at the many glorious things continually done by Him. 013:018 This prompted Him to say, "What is the Kingdom of God like? and to what shall I compare it? 013:019 It is like a mustard seed which a man drops into the soil in his garden, and it grows and becomes a tree in whose branches the birds roost." 013:020 And again He said, "To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God? 013:021 It is like yeast which a woman takes and buries in a bushel of flour, to work there till the whole is leavened." 013:022 He was passing through town after town and village after village, steadily proceeding towards Jerusalem, 013:023 when some one asked Him, "Sir, are there but few who are to be saved?" 013:024 "Strain every nerve to force your way in through the narrow gate," He answered; "for multitudes, I tell you, will endeavour to find a way in and will not succeed. 013:025 As soon as the Master of the house shall have risen and shut the door, and you have begun to stand outside and knock at the door and say, "`Sir, open the door for us'--"`I do not know you,' He answers; `you are no friends of mine.' 013:026 "Then you will plead, "`We have eaten and drunk in your company and you have taught in our streets.' 013:027 "But He will reply, "`I tell you that you are no friends of mine. Begone from me, all of you, wrongdoers that you are.' 013:028 "There will be the weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the Prophets in the Kingdom of God, and yourselves being driven far away. 013:029 They will come from east and west, from north and south, and will sit down at the banquet in the Kingdom of God.