3 No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish as well!
4 Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them—do you think that they were sinners worse than all the people who live in Jerusalem?
5 No, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all perish as well!”
6 And he told this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find any.
7 So he said to the gardener, ‘Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and did not find any. Cut it down! Why should it even exhaust the soil?’
8 But he answered and said to him, ‘Sir, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put manure on it.
9 And if indeed it produces fruit in the coming year, so much the better, but if not, you can cut it down.’ ”