4. Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were worse offenders than all men living in Jerusalem?
5. I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”
6. Then He told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard. He came and looked for fruit on it and found none.
7. So he said to the vinedresser of his vineyard, ‘Now these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it deplete the soil?’
8. “He answered him, ‘Sir, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.
9. And if it bears fruit, well. But if not, after that you shall cut it down.’ ”
10. He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.
11. And there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years and was bent over and could not straighten herself up.
12. When Jesus saw her, He called her and said to her, “Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity.”