5. No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as well! ”
6. And He told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He came looking for fruit on it and found none.
7. He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it even waste the soil? ’
8. “But he replied to him, ‘Sir, leave it this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.
9. Perhaps it will bear fruit next year, but if not, you can cut it down.’ ”
10. As He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath,