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5 I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.”

The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree

6 He also spoke this parable: a“A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.  
7 Then he said to the keeper of his vineyard, ‘Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down; why does it1 use up the ground?’  
8 But he answered and said to him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.
9 And if it bears fruit, well. But if not, after that you can acut it down.’ ”  

A Spirit of Infirmity

10 Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.
11 And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent over and could in no way1 raise herself up.  
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Luke 13:7

The vinedresser (ton ampelourgon). Old word, but here only in the N.T., from ampelov, vine, and ergon, work.

These three years I come (tria eth af ou erxomai). Literally, "three years since (from which time) I come." These three years, of course, have nothing to do with the three years of Christ's public ministry. The three years are counted from the time when the fig tree would normally be expected to bear, not from the time of planting. The Jewish nation is meant by this parable of the barren fig tree. In the withering of the barren fig tree later at Jerusalem we see parable changed to object lesson or fact (Mark 11:12-14; Matthew 21:18 f.).

Cut it down (ekkoyon). "Cut it out," the Greek has it, out of the vineyard, perfective use of ek with the effective aorist active imperative of koptw, where we prefer "down."

Why? (ina ti). Ellipsis here of genhtai of which ti is subject (Robertson, Grammar, pp. 739,916).

Also (kai). Besides bearing no fruit.

Doth cumber the ground (thn ghn katargei). Makes the ground completely idle, of no use (kata, argew, from argov, a privative and ergon, work). Late verb, here only in the N.T. except in Paul's Epistles.




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