Luke13: 6-9

   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.  So he said to his gardener, ‘Look, for three years I have been coming here looking for figs on this fig tree, and I haven’t found any.  Cut it down! Why should it go on using up the soil? ’ 

   But the gardener answered, ‘ Leave it alone, sir, just one more year I will dig around it and put in some fertilizer.  Then if the tree bears figs next year, so much the better; if not, then you can have it cut down. ’ ”