Luke 13:6-9 And Jesus told them this parable-- "A man, who had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, came to look for fruit on it, but could not find any.

Twentieth_Century⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁶ And Jesus told them this parable-- "A man, who had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, came to look for fruit on it, but could not find any. ⁷ So he said to his gardener 'Three years now I have come to look for fruit on this fig tree, without finding any! Cut it down. Why should it rob the soil?' ⁸ 'Leave it this one year more, Sir,' the man answered, 'till I have dug round it and manured it. ⁹ Then, if it bears in future, well and good; but if not, you can have it cut down.'"