e daughter-in-law and the daughter-
in-law law against her mother-in-law.
12:54. And he said also to the multitudes: When you see a cloud rising
from the west, presently you say: A shower is coming. And so it
happeneth.
12:55. And when ye see the south wind blow, you say: There will heat.
And it cometh to pass.
12:56. You hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the heaven
and of the earth: but how is it that you do not discern this time?
12:57. And why, even of yourselves, do you not judge that which is just?
12:58. And when thou goest with thy adversary to the prince, whilst thou
art in the way, endeavour to be delivered from him: lest perhaps he draw
thee to be judge, and the judge deliver thee to the exacter, and the
exacter cast thee into prison.
12:59. I say to thee, thou shalt not go out thence until thou pay the
very last mite.
Luke Chapter 13
The necessity of penance. The barren fig tree. The cure of the infirm
woman. The journey to Jerusalem.
13:1. And there were present, at that very time, some that told him of
the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
13:2. And he answering, said to them: Think you that these Galileans
were sinners above all the men of Galilee, because they suffered such
things?
13:3. No, I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all
likewise perish.
13:4. Or those eighteen upon whom the tower fell in Siloe and slew them:
think you that they also were debtors above all the men that dwelt in
Jerusalem?
13:5. No, I say to you: but except you do penance, you shall all
likewise perish.
13:6. He spoke also this parable: A certain man had a fig tree planted
in his vineyard: and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.
13:7. And he said to the dresser of the vineyard: Behold, for these
three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree and I find none. Cut
it down therefore. Why cumbereth it the ground?
13:8. But he answering, said to him: Lord, let it alone this year also,
until I dig about it and dung it.
13:9. And if happily it bear fruit: but if not, then after that thou
shalt cut it down.
13:10. And he was teaching in their synagogue on their sabbath.
13:11. And behold there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity
eighteen years. And she was bowed together: neither could she look
upwards at all.
13:12. Whom when Jesus saw, he called her unto him and said to her:
Woman, thou art delivered from
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