Charles Spurgeon Commentary Luke 13

This was a matter of common town talk, so of course they brought the news to Jesus. Notice how wisely he used this shameful incident. You and I too often hear the news of what is happening, but we learn nothing from it; our Saviour's gracious mind turned everything to good account; he was like the bee that gathers honey from every flower.

"Do you imagine that there was some extraordinary guilt which brought this judgment upon them, and that those who were spared may be supposed to have been more innocent than they were?"

There would come upon them also, because of their sin, a sudden and overwhelming calamity. When we read of the most dreadful things happening to you, we may conclude that something similar will happen to us if we are impenitent; if not in this world, yet in that which is to come.

This was a foreshadowing of the overthrow of Jerusalem, and the razing of its walls and towers to the ground, which happened not long after; and even that overthrow of Jerusalem was but a rehearsal of the tremendous doom that shall come upon all who remain impenitent.

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.

He had a right to seek fruit on the tree, for it was planted where fruit-bearing trees were growing, and where it shared in the general cultivation that was given to all the trees in the vineyard.