Luke 13:1-9 ▼

1 Now at the same time, some were present, reporting to Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate mixed with their sacrifices.

2 And answering, He said to them, “Do you? think that these Galileans were sinners beyond all the Galileans, because they have suffered these things?

3 No, I say to you?; but unless you? repent, you? will all likewise perish.

4 Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and it killed them: Do you? think that these were debtors beyond all the men dwelling in Jerusalem?

5 No, I say to you?; but unless you? repent, you? will all likewise perish.”

6 And He was speaking this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and he did not find any.

7 And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Behold, for these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree and do not find it. Therefore cut it down! Why does it also render the soil useless?’

8 And answering, he says to him, ‘Sir, leave it this year also, until I may dig around it and put in manure,

9 and if indeed it should make fruit in the time, so be it. But if not, you will cut it down.’”