Luke 13:8

The gardener answered and said, 'Leave it alone this year while I dig around it and put manure on it.

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In The King James Version

And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:

In Context

7The man said to the gardener, 'Look, for three years I came and tried to find fruit on this fig tree and found none. Cut it down. Why let it waste the ground?'

9If it bears fruit next year, good; but if it does not, cut it down!'”

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Cross References

Exodus 32:11But Moses tried to calm down Yahweh his God. He said, “Yahweh, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

Exodus 34:9Then he said, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, my Lord, please go among us, for this people is stubborn. Pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as your inheritance.”

Joshua 7:7Then Joshua said, “Ah, Yahweh Lord, why have you brought this people across the Jordan at all? To give us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us? If only we made a different decision and we had stayed on the other side of the Jordan!

Jeremiah 14:7Even though our iniquities testify against us, Yahweh, act for the sake of your name. 2 For our faithless actions increase; we have sinned against you. 2

Jeremiah 15:1Then Yahweh said to me, “Even if Moses or Samuel were standing in front of me, I would still not be in favor of this people. Send them out from before me, for them to go away.

Joel 2:17Let the priests, the servants of Yahweh, 1 weep between the porch and the altar. 1 Let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, 1 and do not make your inheritance into an object of scorn, 1 that the nations mock them. 1 Why should they say among the nations, 1 'Where is their God?'” 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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