Every year His parents traveled to Jerusalem for the Passover Festival.

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.

“But he replied to him, ‘Sir, leave it this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

Perhaps it will bear fruit next year, but if not, you can cut it down.’”