Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Then he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it but did not find any. New Living Translation Then Jesus told this story: “A man planted a fig tree in his garden and came again and again to see if there was any fruit on it, but he was always disappointed. English Standard Version And he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. Berean Standard Bible Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any. Berean Literal Bible And He was speaking this parable: "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit on it, and not did find any. King James Bible He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. New King James Version He also spoke this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. New American Standard Bible And He began telling this parable: “A man had a fig tree which had been planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find any. NASB 1995 And He began telling this parable: “A man had a fig tree which had been planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find any. NASB 1977 And He began telling this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree which had been planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it, and did not find any. Legacy Standard Bible And He was telling this parable: “A man had a fig tree which had been planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit on it and did not find any. Amplified Bible Then He began telling them this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree that had been planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it, but did not find any; Christian Standard Bible 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. Holman Christian Standard Bible 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. American Standard Version And he spake this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit thereon, and found none. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard and he came seeking fruit on it and he found none. Contemporary English Version Jesus then told them this story: A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard. One day he went out to pick some figs, but he didn't find any. Douay-Rheims Bible He spoke also this parable: A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none. English Revised Version And he spake this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit thereon, and found none. GOD'S WORD® Translation Then Jesus used this illustration: "A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on the tree but didn't find any. Good News Translation Then Jesus told them this parable: "There was once a man who had a fig tree growing in his vineyard. He went looking for figs on it but found none. International Standard Version Then Jesus told them this parable: "A man had a fig tree that had been planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it but didn't find any. Literal Standard Version And He spoke this allegory: “A certain one had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit in it, and he did not find; Majority Standard Bible Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any. New American Bible And he told them this parable: “There once was a person who had a fig tree planted in his orchard, and when he came in search of fruit on it but found none, NET Bible Then Jesus told this parable: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. New Revised Standard Version Then he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. New Heart English Bible He spoke this parable. "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none. Webster's Bible Translation He spoke also this parable: A certain man had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit on it, and found none. Weymouth New Testament And He gave them the following parable. "A man," He said, "who had a fig-tree growing in his garden came to look for fruit on it and could find none. World English Bible He spoke this parable. “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. Young's Literal Translation And he spake this simile: 'A certain one had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit in it, and he did not find; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree5No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.” 6Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any. 7So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’… Cross References Isaiah 5:2 He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour! Jeremiah 8:13 I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them." Matthew 21:19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. "May you never bear fruit again!" He said. And immediately the tree withered. Luke 3:9 The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire." Luke 13:5 No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish." Treasury of Scripture He spoke also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. fig-tree. Psalm 80:8-13 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it… Isaiah 5:1-4 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: … Jeremiah 2:21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? and he came. Luke 20:10-14 And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty… Matthew 21:34-40 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it… John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. Jump to Previous Fig Fig-Tree Find Following Found Fruit Garden Growing Parable Planted Seeking Simile Sought Story Telling Thereon Tree VineyardJump to Next Fig Fig-Tree Find Following Found Fruit Garden Growing Parable Planted Seeking Simile Sought Story Telling Thereon Tree VineyardLuke 13 1. Jesus preaches repentance upon the punishment of the Galilaeans and others.6. The fruitless fig tree may not stand. 10. He heals the crooked woman; 18. shows the powerful working of the word, by the parable of the grain of mustard seed, 20. and of leaven; 22. exhorts to enter in at the strait gate; 31. and reproves Herod and Jerusalem. (6) A certain man had a fig tree.--The parable stands obviously in very close connection with the foregoing teaching. The people had been warned of the danger of perishing, unless they repented. They are now taught that the forbearance and long-suffering of God are leading them to repentance. The sharp warning of the Baptist, "Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down" (Matthew 3:10), is expanded into a parable. As regards the outward framework of the story, we have only to note that the joint culture of the fig-tree and the vine was so common as to have passed into a proverb (2Kings 18:31; Song of Solomon 2:13). The interpretation of the parable as to its general drift is easy enough. The barren fig-tree is the symbol of a fruitless profession of godliness; the delay represents the forbearance of God in allowing yet a time for repentance. When we come to details, however, serious difficulties present themselves. If we take the fig-tree as representing Israel, what are we to make of the vineyard? If the owner of the vineyard be Christ, who is the vine-dresser? Do the three years refer to the actual duration of our Lord's ministry? Answers to these questions will be found in the following considerations:--(1) The vineyard is uniformly in the parabolic language of Scripture the symbol of Israel. (See Note on Matthew 21:33.) (2) The owner of that vineyard is none other than the great King, the Lord of Hosts (Isaiah 5:7). (3) If this be so, then the fig-tree must stand for something else than Israel as a nation, and the context points to its being the symbol of the individual soul, which inheriting its place in a divine order, is as a tree planted in the garden of the Lord. (Comp. Psalm 1:3; Jeremiah 18:8.) (4) The "three years" in which the owner comes seeking fruit can, on this view, answer neither to the three stages of Revelation--Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Prophetic--nor the three years of our Lord's ministry, but represent, as the symbol of completeness, the full opportunities given to men, the calls to repentance and conversion which come to them in the several stages of their lives in youth, manhood, age. (5) The dresser of the vineyard, following the same line of thought, is the Lord Jesus Himself, who intercedes, as for the nation as a whole, so for each individual member of the nation. He pleads for delay. He will do what can be done by "digging" into the fallow ground of the soul, and by imparting new sources of nourishment or fruitfulness. If these avail, well. If not, the fig-tree, by implication every fig-tree in the vineyard that continued barren, would be cut down. . . . Verse 6. - He spake also this parable: A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard. And then, without any further prelude, Jesus spoke this parable of the barren fig tree, which contained, in language scarcely veiled at all, warnings to Israel as a nation - the most sombre and threatening he had yet given utterance to. "Hear, O people," said the Master. "In the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is a fig tree, long planted there, but utterly unfruitful. It is now on its last trial; indeed, were it not for the intercession of the Gardener, the Lord of the vineyard had already pronounced its final doom." "The very intercession, though, is ominous; the Vinedresser shows his mercifulness by deprecating immediate cutting down, but the careful specification of conditions, and the limitation of the period within which experiments are to be made, intimate that peril is imminent... The restriction of the intercession of the Vinedresser for a single year's grace indicates Christ's own sympathy with this Divine rigour... The Vinedresser knows that, though God is long-suffering, yet his patience as exhibited in the history of his dealings with men is exhaustible, and that in Israel's case it is now all but worn out. And he sympathizes with the Divine impatience with chronic and incurable sterility" (Professor Bruce). A fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. It is not an uncommon practice to plant fig trees at the corners of vineyards, thus utilizing every available spot of ground. Still the Lord's choice of a fig tree as the symbol of Israel, the chosen people, is at first sight strange. This image was no doubt selected to show those Pharisees and other Jews, proud of what they considered their unassailable position as the elect of the Eternal, that, after all, the position they occupied was but that of a fig tree in the corner of the vineyard of the world - planted there and watched over so long as it promised to serve the Lord of the vineyard's purpose; if it ceased to do that, if it gave no further promise of fruit, then it would be ruthlessly cut down. Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Thenδὲ (de) Conjunction Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc. [Jesus] told Ἔλεγεν (Elegen) Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 2036: Answer, bid, bring word, command. A primary verb; to speak or say. this ταύτην (tautēn) Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it. parable: παραβολήν (parabolēn) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 3850: From paraballo; a similitude, i.e. fictitious narrative, apothegm or adage. “A [man] τις (tis) Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 5100: Any one, some one, a certain one or thing. An enclitic indefinite pronoun; some or any person or object. had εἶχέν (eichen) Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 2192: To have, hold, possess. Including an alternate form scheo skheh'-o; a primary verb; to hold. a fig tree Συκῆν (Sykēn) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 4808: A fig-tree. From sukon; a fig-tree. that was planted πεφυτευμένην (pephyteumenēn) Verb - Perfect Participle Middle or Passive - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 5452: To plant, set. From a derivative of phuo; to set out in the earth, i.e. Implant; figuratively, to instil doctrine. in ἐν (en) Preposition Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. his αὐτοῦ (autou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. vineyard. ἀμπελῶνι (ampelōni) Noun - Dative Masculine Singular Strong's 290: A vineyard. From ampelos; a vineyard. He went ἦλθεν (ēlthen) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 2064: To come, go. to look for ζητῶν (zētōn) Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 2212: To seek, search for, desire, require, demand. Of uncertain affinity; to seek; specially, to worship, or to plot. fruit καρπὸν (karpon) Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 2590: Probably from the base of harpazo; fruit, literally or figuratively. on ἐν (en) Preposition Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. it, αὐτῇ (autē) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Feminine 3rd Person Singular Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. [but] καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. did not find [any]. εὗρεν (heuren) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 2147: A prolonged form of a primary heuro, which heureo is used for it in all the tenses except the present and imperfect to find. 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