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St Luke 13:4-16 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

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?

5. No, I say to you; but except you do penance, you shall all likewise perish.

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.

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 done therefore: why cumbereth it the ground?

8. But he answering, said to him: Lord, let it alone this year also, until I dig about it, and dung it.

9. And if happily it bear fruit: but if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

10. And he was teaching in their synagogue on their sabbath.

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.

12. Whom when Jesus saw, he called her unto him, and said to her: Woman, thou art delivered from thy infirmity.

13. And he laid his hands upon her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.

14. And the ruler of the synagogue (being angry that Jesus had healed on the sabbath) answering, said to the multitude: Six days there are wherein you ought to work. In them therefore come, and be healed; and not on the sabbath day.

15. And the Lord answering him, said: Ye hypocrites, doth not every one of you, on the sabbath day, loose his ox or his ass from the manger, and lead them to water?

16. And ought not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

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