013:002 "Do you suppose," He asked in reply, "that those Galilaeans
were worse sinners than the mass of the Galilaeans,
because this happened to them?
013:003 I tell you, certainly not. On the contrary, if you are not
penitent you will all perish as they did.
013:004 Or those eighteen on whom the tower at Siloam fell, do you
suppose they had failed in their duty more than all the rest
of the people who live in Jerusalem?
013:005 I tell you, certainly not. On the contrary, if you do not
repent you will all perish just as they did."
013:006 And He gave them the following parable. "A man," He said,
"who had a fig-tree growing in his garden came to look
for fruit on it and could find none.
013:007 So he said to the gardener, "`See, this is the third year I have
come to look for fruit on this fig-tree and cannot find any.
Cut it down. Why should so much ground be actually wasted?'
013:008 "But the gardener pleaded, "`Leave it, Sir, this year also,
till I have dug round it and manured it.
013:009 If after that it bears fruit, well and good; if it does not,
then you shall cut it down.'"
013:010 Once He was teaching on the Sabbath in one of the synagogues
013:011 where a woman was present who for eighteen years had been
a confirmed invalid: she was bent double, and was unable
to lift herself to her full height.
013:012 But Jesus saw her, and calling to her, He said to her, "Woman,
you are free from your weakness."
013:013 And He put His hands on her, and she immediately stood upright
and began to give glory to God.
013:014 Then the Warden of the Synagogue, indignant that Jesus
had cured her on a Sabbath, said to the crowd, "There are