Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.’”
Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.
who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind
And he answered him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure.
Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.