从前西罗亚楼倒塌了,压死十八个人,你们以为那些人比一切住在耶路撒冷的人更有罪吗。Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?
于是用比喻说,一个人有一棵无花果树,栽在葡萄园里。他来到树前梢果子,却找不着。He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.
就对管园的说,看哪,我这三年,来到这无花果树前梢果子,竟找不着,把他砍了吧。何必白占地土呢。Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
有一个女人,被鬼附着病了十八年。腰弯得一点直不起来。And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.