Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
General references
Bible References
Three
Leviticus 19:23
‘When you enter the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it shall not be eaten.
Leviticus 25:21
then I will so order My blessing for you in the sixth year that it will bring forth the crop for three years.
Romans 2:4
Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
Cut
Luke 3:9
Indeed the axe is already laid at the root of the trees; so every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”
Exodus 32:10
Now then let Me alone, that My anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them; and I will make of you a great nation.”
Daniel 4:14 ‘He shouted out and spoke as follows:
Chop down the tree and cut off its branches,
Strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit;
Let thebeasts flee from under it
And the birds from its branches.
Strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit;
Let the
And the birds from its branches.
Matthew 3:10
The axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Matthew 7:19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
John 15:2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.
Why
Exodus 32:10
Now then let Me alone, that My anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them; and I will make of you a great nation.”
Matthew 3:9
and do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father’; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham.
General references
Judges 9:11
But the fig tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit, and go to wave over the trees?’
Luke 3:9
Indeed the axe is already laid at the root of the trees; so every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”