6. And He told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He came looking for fruit on it and found none.
7. He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it even waste the soil? ’
8. “But he replied to him, ‘Sir, leave it this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.
9. Perhaps it will bear fruit next year, but if not, you can cut it down.’ ”
10. As He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath,
11. a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for over 18 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 of your disability.”
13. Then He laid His hands on her, and instantly she was restored and began to glorify God.
14. But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded by telling the crowd, “There are six days when work should be done; therefore come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day.”
15. But the Lord answered him and said, “Hypocrites! Doesn’t each one of you untie his ox or donkey from the feeding trough on the Sabbath and lead it to water?
16. Satan has bound this woman, a daughter of Abraham, for 18 years — shouldn’t she be untied from this bondage on the Sabbath day? ”