Maybe it will have figs on it next year. If it doesn't, you can have it cut down."
One Sabbath, Jesus was teaching in a Jewish meeting place,
The gardener answered, "Master, leave it for another year. I'll dig around it and put some manure on it to make it grow.
He cuts away every branch of mine that doesn't produce fruit. But he trims clean every branch that does produce fruit, so that it will produce even more fruit.
Those Jews killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and they even chased us away. God doesn't like what they do and neither does anyone else.
But land that produces only thornbushes is worthless. It is likely to fall under God's curse, and in the end it will be set on fire.