Luke 13:7

7 So he said to the gardener, 'Behold, {for three years} I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and did not find [any]. Cut it down! Why should it even exhaust the soil?'

Luke 13:7 In-Context

5 No, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all perish as well!"
6 And he told this parable: "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find [any].
7 So he said to the gardener, 'Behold, {for three years} I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and did not find [any]. Cut it down! Why should it even exhaust the soil?'
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.'"

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Literally "three years from which"
  • [b]. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  • [c]. Some manuscripts have "Therefore cut it down!"
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