Luke 13:7-11 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

7. Then he said to the cultivator of the vineyard: 'Behold, for these three years I came seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I have found none. Therefore, cut it down. For why should it even occupy the land?'

8. But in response, he said to him: 'Lord, let it be for this year also, during which time I will dig around it and add fertilizer.

9. And, indeed, it should bear fruit. But if not, in the future, you shall cut it down.' "

10. Now he was teaching in their synagogue on the Sabbaths.

11. And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years. And she was bent over; and she was unable to look upwards at all.

Luke 13