5. I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.’
6. Then he told this parable: ‘A man had a fig-tree growing in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it but did not find any.
7. So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, “For three years now I’ve been coming to look for fruit on this fig-tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?”
8. ‘ “Sir,” the man replied, “leave it alone for one more year, and I’ll dig round it and fertilise it.
9. If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.” ’
10. On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues,
11. and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.