Luke 13:9
If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’”
World English Bible
In The King James Version
And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
In Context
8He answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.
10He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day.
Cross References
Ezra 9:14shall we again break your commandments, and join ourselves with the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn’t you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant, nor any to escape?
Daniel 9:5we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.
1 Thessalonians 2:15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,
Revelation 15:3They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
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 →