Don't think to yourselves, 'We have ABRAHAM for our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to ABRAHAM from these stones.

16. Ought not this woman, being a daughter of ABRAHAM, whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?"

17. As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed, and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.

18. He said,"What is God's Kingdom like? To what shall I compare it?

19. It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky live in its branches."

20. Again he said,"To what shall I compare God's Kingdom?

21. It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measuresof flour, until it was all leavened."

22. He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and traveling on to Jerusalem.

23. One said to him, "Lord, are they few who are saved?"He said to them,

24. "Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

25. When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer and tell you, 'I don't know you or where you come from.'

26. Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.'

27. He will say, 'I tell you, I don't know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.'

28. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see ABRAHAM, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, in God's Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.

Jesus said to him,"Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of ABRAHAM.

33. They answered him, "We are ABRAHAM's offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say,'You will be made free'?"

34. Jesus answered them,"Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

35. A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever.

36. If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

37. I know that you are ABRAHAM's offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

38. I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."

39. They answered him, "Our father is ABRAHAM."Jesus said to them,"If you were ABRAHAM's children, you would do the works of ABRAHAM.

40. But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. ABRAHAM didn't do this.