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No, I tell you. Rather, unless you turn from your sins, you will all die similarly."
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Then Yeshua gave this illustration: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vine yard, and he came looking for fruit but didn't find any.
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So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, `Here, I've come looking for fruit on this fig tree for three years now without finding any. Cut it down -- why let it go on using up the soil?'
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But he answered, `Sir, leave it alone one more year. I'll dig around it and put manure on it.
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If it bears fruit next year, well and good; if not, you will have it cut down then.'"
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Yeshua was teaching in one of the synagogues on Shabbat.
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A woman came up who had a spirit which had crippled her for eighteen years; she was bent double and unable to stand erect at all.
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On seeing her, Yeshua called her and said to her, "Lady, you have been set free from your weakness!"
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He put his hands on her, and at once she stood upright and began to glorify God.
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But the president of the synagogue, indignant that Yeshua had healed on Shabbat, spoke up and said to the congregation, "There are six days in the week for working; so come during those days to be healed, not on Shabbat!"
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However, the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Each one of you on Shabbat -- don't you unloose your ox or your donkey from the stall and lead him off to drink?