and if indeed it may bear fruit — ; and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.’
And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath,
‘And he answering saith to him, Sir, suffer it also this year, till that I may dig about it, and cast in dung;
every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;
who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men [are] contrary,
and that which is bearing thorns and briers [is] disapproved of, and nigh to cursing, whose end [is] for burning;