Luke 13:9

And if it produces fruit, fine. But if not, in the coming year, you can cut it down.’ ” 1 Healing on the Sabbath

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

In Context

8But he answered and said to him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

10Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.

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Cross References

1 Thessalonians 2:15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God and are hostile to all men,

Revelation 15:3And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: 1 “Great and marvelous are Your works, 1 Lord God Almighty! 1 Righteous and true are Your ways, 1 O King of the nations! 1

Matthew Henry on Luke 13:7-10

The Barren Fig-Tree. 6 He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. 7 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? 8 And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: 9 And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it… Read the whole commentary →

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