4 Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them – do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem?
5 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.’
6 Then he told this parable: ‘A man had a fig-tree growing in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it but did not find any.
7 So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, “For three years now I’ve been coming to look for fruit on this fig-tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?”
8 ‘ “Sir,” the man replied, “leave it alone for one more year, and I’ll dig round it and fertilise it.
9 If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.” ’
10 On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues,