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What about those eighteen people who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them? Do you think that they were more guilty of wrongdoing than everyone else who lives in Jerusalem?
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No, I tell you, but unless you change your hearts and lives, you will die just as they did."
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Jesus told this parable: " A man owned a fig tree planted in his vineyard. He came looking for fruit on it and found none.
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He said to his gardener, ‘Look, I've come looking for fruit on this fig tree for the past three years, and I've never found any. Cut it down! Why should it continue depleting the soil's nutrients?'
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The gardener responded, ‘Lord, give it one more year, and I will dig around it and give it fertilizer.
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Maybe it will produce fruit next year; if not, then you can cut it down.'"
Healing on a Sabbath
10 Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.
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A woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and couldn't stand up straight.
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When he saw her, Jesus called her to him and said, " Woman, you are set free from your sickness."
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He placed his hands on her and she straightened up at once and praised God.
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The synagogue leader, incensed that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded, "There are six days during which work is permitted. Come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath day."