5. No indeed! And I tell you that if you do not turn from your sins, you will all die as they did.”
6. Then Jesus told them this parable: “There was once a man who had a fig tree growing in his vineyard. He went looking for figs on it but found none.
7. So he said to his gardener, ‘Look, for three years I have been coming here looking for figs on this fig tree, and I haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it go on using up the soil?’
8. But the gardener answered, ‘Leave it alone, sir, just one more year; I will dig round it and put in some manure.