Luke 13:1-12

¹Just at that time some people had come to tell Jesus about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices.

²“Do you suppose,” replied Jesus, “that, because these Galileans have suffered in this way, they were worse sinners than any other Galileans?

³No, I tell you; but, unless you repent, you will all perish as they did.

⁴Or those eighteen men at Siloam on whom the tower fell, killing them all, do you suppose that they were worse offenders than any other inhabitants of Jerusalem?

⁵No, I tell you; but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same manner.”

⁶And Jesus told them this parable — “A man, who had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, came to look for fruit on it, but could not find any.

⁷So he said to his gardener ‘Three years now I have come to look for fruit on this fig tree, without finding any! Cut it down. Why should it rob the soil?’

⁸‘Leave it this one year more, Sir,’ the man answered, ‘until I have dug around it and manured it.

⁹Then, if it bears in future, well and good; but if not, you can have it cut down.’”

¹⁰Jesus was teaching on a Sabbath in one of the synagogues,

¹¹and he saw before him a woman who for eighteen years had suffered from weakness owing to her having an evil spirit in her. She was bent double, and was wholly unable to raise herself.

¹²When Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said, “Woman, you are released from your weakness.”