4. “Or those eighteen upon whom the tower in Siloam fell and were killed, do you suppose that they are worse sinners than all the people living in Jerusalem?
5. No, I tell you! But unless you repent, you all will perish the same way.
6. Then Yeshua began telling this parable: “A man had a fig tree he had planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none.
7. So he said to the gardener, ‘Indeed, for three years I‘ve come searching for fruit on this fig tree and found none. Remove it! Why does it use up the ground?’
8. “But answering, the gardener said to him, ‘Master, leave it alone for this year also, until I dig around it and apply fertilizer.
9. And if it bears fruit, good. But if not, cut it down.’”
10. Now Yeshua was teaching in one of the synagogues on Shabbat.
11. And behold, there was a woman with a disabling spirit for eighteen years, bent over and completely unable to stand up straight.
12. When Yeshua saw her, He called out to her and said, “Woman, you are set free from your disability.”
13. Then He laid hands on her, and instantly she stood up straight and began praising God.
14. But the synagogue leader, indignant that Yeshua had healed on Shabbat, started telling the crowd, “There are six days in which work should be done—so come to be healed on those days and not on Yom Shabbat!”
15. But the Lord answered him and said, “Hypocrites! On Shabbat doesn’t each of you untie his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it away to give it drink?
16. So this one, a daughter of Abraham incapacitated by satan for eighteen years, shouldn’t she be set free from this imprisonment on Yom Shabbat?”