Luke 13:1-12

¹And there were present certain at that time, telling him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate did mingle with their sacrifices;

²and Jesus answering said to them, 'Think ye that these Galileans became sinners beyond all the Galileans, because they have suffered such things?

³No — I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.

⁴'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?

⁵No — I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye in like manner shall perish.'

⁶And 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;

⁷and 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?

⁸'And he answering saith to him, Sir, suffer it also this year, till that I may dig about it, and cast in dung;

⁹and if indeed it may bear fruit — ;and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.'

¹⁰And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath,

¹¹and 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,

¹²and Jesus having seen her, did call her near, and said to her, 'Woman, thou hast been loosed from thy infirmity;'