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`Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; think ye that these became debtors beyond all men who are dwelling in Jerusalem?
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No -- I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye in like manner shall perish.'
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And he spake this simile: `A certain one had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit in it, and he did not find;
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and he said unto the vine-dresser, Lo, three years I come seeking fruit in this fig-tree, and do not find, cut it off, why also the ground doth it render useless?
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`And he answering saith to him, Sir, suffer it also this year, till that I may dig about it, and cast in dung;
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and if indeed it may bear fruit --; and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.'
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And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath,
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and lo, there was a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bowed together, and not able to bend back at all,
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and Jesus having seen her, did call [her] near, and said to her, `Woman, thou hast been loosed from thy infirmity;'
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and he laid on her [his] hands, and presently she was set upright, and was glorifying God.
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And the chief of the synagogue answering -- much displeased that on the sabbath Jesus healed -- said to the multitude, `Six days there are in which it behoveth [us] to be working; in these, then, coming, be healed, and not on the sabbath-day.'