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Luke 13:7
And he said unto the vine-dresser—Lo! three years, I come, seeking fruit in this fig-tree, and find none. Cut it down! Why doth it make, even the round useless?
Luke 13:7 · Rotherham Emphasised Bible
Luke 13:7 in other translations
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?
So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’
He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down! Why does it waste the soil?’
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In context
4 Or, those eighteen, upon whom fell the tower in Siloam, and slew them, suppose ye that, they, had become, debtors, beyond all the men who were dwelling in Jerusalem?
5 Nay! I tell you, but, except ye repent, ye, all, in the same way, shall perish.
6 And he went on to speak this parable:—A certain man had, a fig-tree, planted in his vineyard, and he canto seeking fruit therein, and found none.
7 And he said unto the vine-dresser—Lo! three years, I come, seeking fruit in this fig-tree, and find none. Cut it down! Why doth it make, even the round useless?
8 And, he, answering, saith unto him—Sir! let it alone this year also, until such time as I dig about it, and throw in manure,—
9 and if it may bear fruit for the future; …but, otherwise, certainly, thou shalt cut it down.
10 And he was teaching in one of the synagogues, on the Sabbath.
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