7. So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, ‘For three years now I’ve been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’
8. “ ‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone for one more year, and I’ll dig around it and fertilize it.
9. If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.’ ”
10. On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues,
11. and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.
12. When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.”