Luke 13:1-12

¹It was around this time that some people told Jesus about Pilate's killing of some Galileans while they were offering sacrifices in the Temple.

²“Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than any other Galileans because they suffered like this?” Jesus asked.

³“No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you will all perish as well.

⁴What about those eighteen people that were killed when the tower in Siloam fell on them? Do you think they were the worst people in the whole of Jerusalem?

⁵No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you will all perish as well.”

⁶Then he told them this story as an illustration. “Once there was man who had a fig tree planted in his vineyard. He came to look for fruit on the tree, but he didn't find any.

⁷So he told the gardener, ‘Look, for three years I've been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and I haven't found any. Chop it down! Why should it be taking up space?’

⁸‘Master,’ the man replied, ‘please leave it alone for just one more year. I'll dig the soil around it and put down some fertilizer.

⁹If it produces fruit, then that's fine. If not, then chop it down.’”

¹⁰One Sabbath Jesus was teaching in a synagogue,

¹¹and a woman was there who had been crippled by an evil spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not stand straight.

¹²When Jesus saw her, he called her over and told her, “You're freed of your sickness.”