7. So he said to his gardener, ‘Look, for three years I have been coming here looking for figs on this fig tree, and I haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it go on using up the soil?’
8. But the gardener answered, ‘Leave it alone, sir, just one more year; I will dig round it and put in some manure.
9. Then if the tree bears figs next year, so much the better; if not, then you can have it cut down.’ ”
10. One Sabbath Jesus was teaching in a synagogue.
11. A woman there had an evil spirit that had made her ill for eighteen years; she was bent over and could not straighten up at all.
12. When Jesus saw her, he called out to her, “Woman, you are free from your illness!”