6 Jesus told this story: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard. He came looking for some fruit on the tree, but he found none.
7 So the man said to his gardener, ‘I have been looking for fruit on this tree for three years, but I never find any. Cut it down. Why should it waste the ground?’
8 But the servant answered, ‘Master, let the tree have one more year to produce fruit. Let me dig up the dirt around it and put on some fertilizer.
9 If the tree produces fruit next year, good. But if not, you can cut it down.’ ”
10 Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day.
11 A woman was there who, for eighteen years, had an evil spirit in her that made her crippled. Her back was always bent; she could not stand up straight.
12 When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Woman, you are free from your sickness.”