6. Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none.
7. So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, ‘For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?’
8. But the worker answered him, ‘Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer on it.
9. Then if it bears fruit next year, very well, but if not, you can cut it down.’”
10. Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath,
11. and a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten herself up completely.
12. When Jesus saw her, he called her to him and said, “Woman, you are freed from your infirmity.”
13. Then he placed his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.