Luke 13:7-9

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁷ He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down!^(A) Why should it even waste the soil?’^(B)

⁸ “But he replied to him, ‘Sir,^[a] leave it this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.^{(C) 9} Perhaps it will bear fruit next year, but if not, you can cut it down.’”