Luke 13:1-11

1 Just at that time people came to tell Him about the Galilaeans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

2 "Do you suppose," He asked in reply, "that those Galilaeans were worse sinners than the mass of the Galilaeans, because this happened to them?

3 I tell you, certainly not. On the contrary, if you are not penitent you will all perish as they did.

4 Or those eighteen on whom the tower at Siloam fell, do you suppose they had failed in their duty more than all the rest of the people who live in Jerusalem?

5 I tell you, certainly not. On the contrary, if you do not repent you will all perish just as they did."

6 And He gave them the following parable. "A man," He said, "who had a fig-tree growing in his garden came to look for fruit on it and could find none.

7 So he said to the gardener, "`See, this is the third year I have come to look for fruit on this fig-tree and cannot find any. Cut it down. Why should so much ground be actually wasted?'

8 "But the gardener pleaded, "`Leave it, Sir, this year also, till I have dug round it and manured it.

9 If after that it bears fruit, well and good; if it does not, then you shall cut it down.'"

10 Once He was teaching on the Sabbath in one of the synagogues

11 where a woman was present who for eighteen years had been a confirmed invalid: she was bent double, and was unable to lift herself to her full height.