Luke 13:1–9 (LEB)
1Now at the same time some had come to tell him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
2And he answered and said to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were sinners worse than all the Galileans, because they suffered these things?
3No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish as well!
4Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them—do you think that they were sinners worse than all the people who live in Jerusalem?
5No, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all perish as well!”
6And he told this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find any.
7So he said to the gardener, ‘Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and did not find any. Cut it down! Why should it even exhaust the soil?’
8But he answered and said to him, ‘Sir, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put manure on it.
9And if indeed it produces fruit in the coming year, so much the better, but if not, you can cut it down.’ ”
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