8. But he answered and said to him, ‘Sir, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put manure on it.
9. And if indeed it produces fruit in the coming year, so much the better, but if not, you can cut it down.’ ”
10. Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.
11. And behold, a woman was there who had a spirit that had disabled her for eighteen years, and she was bent over and not able to straighten herself up completely.