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So he said to his gardener, "Look, for three years I have been coming here looking for figs on this fig tree, and I haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it go on using up the soil?'
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But the gardener answered, "Leave it alone, sir, just one more year; I will dig around it and put in some fertilizer.
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Then if the tree bears figs next year, so much the better; if not, then you can have it cut down.' "