Luke 13:8-12

⁸But his worker said, ‘Wait, Boss, give it one more chance. Leave it for another year, and I will look after it properly. I’ll dig around it and put some fertilizer stuff on it to help it grow,

⁹and it might get fruit on it next year. If it doesn’t, then we can chop it down.’”

¹⁰One Saturday Jesus was teaching people in a Jewish meeting house. Their Jewish law said that nobody can work on a Saturday. It was their rest day.

¹¹There was a woman there with bad spirit inside her. A long time before that, the bad spirit went into that woman and made her back crooked. That bad spirit lived in her for 18 years, and all that time her back was bent over. She couldn’t stand up straight.

¹²Jesus saw her in that meeting house and said to her, “Come here, lady. You are better now. You are free from that sickness.”