Repent or Perish
1 Now at the same time some had come to tell him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
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And he answered [and] said to them, "Do you think that these Galileans were sinners worse than all the Galileans, because they suffered these [things]?
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No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish as well!
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Or 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?
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No, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all perish as well!"
The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree
6 And 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].
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So 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?'
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But he answered [and] said to him, 'Sir, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put manure on [it].