Luke 13:1-12

¹Now at that time there were some present who told Him about the Galileans whose blood Herod had mixed with their sacrifices.

²So in answer Jesus said to them: “Do you suppose that those Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things?

³Not at all, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all likewise perish!

⁴Or those eighteen on whom the tower of Siloam fell and killed them; do you suppose they were worse offenders than all others living in Jerusalem?

⁵Not at all, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all likewise perish!”

⁶Then He told this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none.

⁷So he said to the gardener: ‘Look, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and have not found any. Cut it down; just why must it waste the soil?’

⁸But in answer he said to him, ‘Sir, let it be this year also, until I dig around it and apply fertilizer,

⁹in case it produces fruit—but if not, then cut it down.’ ”

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

¹¹He saw a woman there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years—she was bent over and could not straighten up.

¹²So He called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity!”