Luke 13:1-9 (The Message)
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About that time some people came up and told him about the Galileans Pilate had killed while they were at worship, mixing their blood with the blood of the sacrifices on the altar.
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Jesus responded, "Do you think those murdered Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans?
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Not at all. Unless you turn to God, you too will die.
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And those eighteen in Jerusalem the other day, the ones crushed and killed when the Tower of Siloam collapsed and fell on them, do you think they were worse citizens than all other Jerusalemites?
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Not at all. Unless you turn to God, you too will die."
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Then he told them a story: "A man had an apple tree planted in his front yard. He came to it expecting to find apples, but there weren't any.
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He said to his gardener, 'What's going on here? For three years now I've come to this tree expecting apples and not one apple have I found. Chop it down! Why waste good ground with it any longer?'
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"The gardener said, 'Let's give it another year. I'll dig around it and fertilize,
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and maybe it will produce next year; if it doesn't, then chop it down.'"
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved. (The Message)
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