13Now at the same time some had come to tell him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. ²And he answered and^* said to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were sinners worse than all the Galileans, because they suffered these things? ³No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish as well! ⁴Or 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? ⁵No, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all perish as well!”

The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree

⁶And 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.^* ⁷So he said to the gardener, ‘Behold, for three years^a I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and did not find any.^* Cut it down!^b Why should it even exhaust the soil?’ ⁸But he answered and^* said to him, ‘Sir, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put manure on it.^* ⁹And if indeed it produces fruit in the coming year, so much the better,^* but if not, you can cut it down.’ ”

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Footnotes

*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
aLiterally “three years from which”
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
bSome manuscripts have “Therefore cut it down!”
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*The phrase “so much the better” is not in the Greek text but is implied