7 So he said to his gardener, ‘Look, for three years I have been coming here looking for figs on this fig tree, and I haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it go on using up the soil?’
8 But the gardener answered, ‘Leave it alone, sir, just one more year; I will dig round it and put in some manure.
9 Then if the tree bears figs next year, so much the better; if not, then you can have it cut down.’ ”
10 One Sabbath Jesus was teaching in a synagogue.
11 A woman there had an evil spirit that had made her ill for eighteen 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 from your illness!”
13 He placed his hands on her, and at once she straightened herself up and praised God.