Luke 13:7

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

So he said to the gardener, ‘See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the soil?’

Cross References

Exodus 32:10

Now let me alone, so that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; and of you I will make a great nation.”

Daniel 4:14

He cried aloud and said: ‘Cut down the tree and chop off its branches, strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit. Let the animals flee from beneath it and the birds from its branches.

Leviticus 19:23

When you come into the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall regard their fruit as forbidden; three years it shall be forbidden to you, it must not be eaten.

Leviticus 25:21

I will order my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will yield a crop for three years.

Matthew 7:19

Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Luke 13:8

He replied, ‘Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and put manure on it.

Luke 3:9

Even now the ax is lying at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”

John 15:2

He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit.

John 15:6

Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.