3. No--I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.
4. `Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; think ye that these became debtors beyond all men who are dwelling in Jerusalem?
5. No--I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye in like manner shall perish.'
6. And he spake this simile: `A certain one had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit in it, and he did not find;
7. and he said unto the vine-dresser, Lo, three years I come seeking fruit in this fig-tree, and do not find, cut it off, why also the ground doth it render useless?
8. `And he answering saith to him, Sir, suffer it also this year, till that I may dig about it, and cast in dung;
9. and if indeed it may bear fruit--;and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.'
10. And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath,
11. and lo, there was a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bowed together, and not able to bend back at all,
12. and Jesus having seen her, did call [her] near, and said to her, `Woman, thou hast been loosed from thy infirmity;'
13. and he laid on her [his] hands, and presently she was set upright, and was glorifying God.
14. And the chief of the synagogue answering--much displeased that on the sabbath Jesus healed--said to the multitude, `Six days there are in which it behoveth [us] to be working; in these, then, coming, be healed, and not on the sabbath-day.'
15. Then the Lord answered him and said, `Hypocrite, doth not each of you on the sabbath loose his ox or ass from the stall, and having led away, doth water [it]?