Then Jesus gave the parable of the barren fig
tree.

He told of the man who had come to his vine-
yard three seasons in a row, each year looking
for fruit on the tree but found nothing each
time.

So he said to the dresser of his vineyard, "Cut
it down; why cumbereth it the ground?"
Luke 13:7 The vineyard dresser asked that
he be given one more chance to dig around
it and fertilize it, "and if it bear fruit, well"
and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it
down."