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Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them—do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others living in Jerusalem?
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No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish just as they did."
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Then he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and found none.
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So he said to the gardener, "See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the soil?'
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He replied, "Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and put manure on it.
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If it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.' "
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Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.
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And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight.
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When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, "Woman, you are set free from your ailment."
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When he laid his hands on her, immediately she stood up straight and began praising God.
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But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured on the sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, "There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured, and not on the sabbath day."