4. What about those eighteen people who died when the tower of Siloam fell on them? Do you think they were more sinful than all the others who live in Jerusalem?
5. No, I tell you. But unless you change your hearts and lives, you will all be destroyed too!”
6. Jesus told this story: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard. He came looking for some fruit on the tree, but he found none.
7. So the man said to his gardener, ‘I have been looking for fruit on this tree for three years, but I never find any. Cut it down. Why should it waste the ground?’
8. But the servant answered, ‘Master, let the tree have one more year to produce fruit. Let me dig up the dirt around it and put on some fertilizer.
9. If the tree produces fruit next year, good. But if not, you can cut it down.’ ”
10. Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day.