In Luke 13, Jesus tells a parable about a barren fig tree. The tree is planted in a vineyard, which sounds weird, but fig trees were often used as trellises in vineyards. The owner is unhappy because ...

He’s close enough to care. A second lesson from this fig tree parable is how the owner believes the tree has worth only if it produces the fruit, the figs, it’s supposed to yield.

Voices of Faith offers perspectives from religion columnists. This week’s question: What explains Jesus’ impatience with the fig tree? A parable on leadership The Rev. Joe Nassal, priest at ...

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So scholars suggest that the fig tree serves as a parable. Jesus has inspected the temple and does not like what he sees. When he leaves Bethany early the next morning before breakfast, he is hungry.

Jesus singled out this event as the one that would signal His soon return. "His prophecy is contained in the fig tree parable (Matthew 24:32-35) which He presented in His Olivet Discourse.

6 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. 7 So he said to the gardener, 'See here! For three years I have come ...

The parable emphasizes the importance of repentance, arguing that without it, one may face a similar fate as the barren fig tree couldn’t bear fruit. In the gospel of Mark, one of the first gospels.

In another more dramatic parable, a gardener pleads with the orchard owner to give an unyielding fig tree one more year to produce fruit before it is cut down.