4Or those eighteen men who were crushed by the fall of the tower of Siloam, were they worse than all the other men living in Jerusalem?
5I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to an end in the same way.
6And he made up this story for them: A certain man had a fig-tree in his garden, and he came to get fruit from it, and there was no fruit.
7And he said to the gardener, See, for three years I have been looking for fruit from this tree, and I have not had any: let it be cut down; why is it taking up space?
8And he said, Lord, let it be for this year, and I will have the earth turned up round it, and put animal waste on it, to make it fertile:
9And if, after that, it has fruit, it is well; if not, let it be cut down.
10And he was teaching in one of the Synagogues on the Sabbath.
