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Jesus answered, "Do you think this happened to them because they were more sinful than all others from Galilee?
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No, I tell you. But unless you change your hearts and lives, you will be destroyed as they were!
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What about those eighteen people who died when the tower of Siloam fell on them? Do you think they were more sinful than all the others who live in Jerusalem?
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No, I tell you. But unless you change your hearts and lives, you will all be destroyed too!"
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Jesus told this story: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard. He came looking for some fruit on the tree, but he found none.
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So the man said to his gardener, 'I have been looking for fruit on this tree for three years, but I never find any. Cut it down. Why should it waste the ground?'
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But the servant answered, 'Master, let the tree have one more year to produce fruit. Let me dig up the dirt around it and put on some fertilizer.
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If the tree produces fruit next year, good. But if not, you can cut it down.'"
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Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day.
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A woman was there who, for eighteen years, had an evil spirit in her that made her crippled. Her back was always bent; she could not stand up straight.
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When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, "Woman, you are free from your sickness."