But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?
Luke 13:6
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;
Luke 13:7
and he said unto the vine-dresser, Lo, three years I come seeking fruit in this fig-tree, and do not find, cut it off, why also the ground doth it render useless?