4. “Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Shiloaḥ fell and killed them, do you think that they were greater offenders than all other men who dwelt in Yerushalayim?
5. “I say to you, no! But unless you repent you shall all perish in the same way.”
6. And He spoke this parable, “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.
7. “And he said to the gardener, ‘Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down, why does it even make the ground useless?’
8. “And he answering, said to him, ‘Master, leave it this year too, until I dig around it and throw manure.
9. ‘And if indeed it bears fruit, good. But if not so, you shall cut it down.’ ”
10. And He was teaching in one of the congregations on the Sabbath,
11. and see, there was a woman having a weakening spirit for eighteen years, and was bent over and was unable to straighten up at all.
12. And יהושע, seeing her, called her near and said to her, “Woman, you are loosened from your weakness.”
13. And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was straightened up, and praised Elohim.
14. But the ruler of the congregation, responding, much displeased that יהושע had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, “There are six days on which men should work, so come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath day.”