In this week's edition of There's more in the Gospel than meets the eye, Jill
Bevilacqua and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the Third
Sunday of Lent. Listen:
GospelLk 13:1-9
Some people told Jesus about
the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. Jesus
said to them in reply, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in
this way they were greater sinners than all other Galileans? By no means! But
I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did! Or those
eighteen people who were killed when the tower at Siloam fell on them— do you
think they were more guilty than everyone else who lived in Jerusalem? By no
means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did!”
And
he told them this parable: “There once was a person who had a fig tree planted
in his orchard, and when he came in search of fruit on it but found none, he
said to the gardener, ‘For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this
fig tree but have found none. So cut it down. Why should it exhaust the
soil?’ He said to him in reply, ‘Sir, leave it for this year also, and I
shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it; it may bear fruit in the
future. If not you can cut it down.’”