Luke 13:9

And if it bear fruits, well; and if not, thou wilt cut it down: why should it live?

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8The cultivator said to him: My Lord, spare it this year also, until I shall work about it, and manure it.

10And when Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, on the sabbath,

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Cross References

1 Thessalonians 2:15the persons who slew our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and persecuted their own prophets and us; and they please not God, and are made hostile to all men;

Revelation 15:3And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: Great and marvellous are thy deeds, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, O King of worlds.

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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