6. And he told them this parable: “There once was a person who had a fig tree planted in his orchard, and when he came in search of fruit on it but found none,
7. he said to the gardener, ‘For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree but have found none. [So] cut it down. Why should it exhaust the soil?’
8. He said to him in reply, ‘Sir, leave it for this year also, and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it;
9. it may bear fruit in the future. If not you can cut it down.’”
10. He was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath.
11. And a woman was there who for eighteen years had been crippled by a spirit; she was bent over, completely incapable of standing erect.