3 No, I tell you. But unless you change your hearts and lives, you will be destroyed as they were!
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.’ ”