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,
