Every year his parents used to travel to Jerusalem at the passover festival;

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, Philip his brother tetrarch of the country of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysias tetrarch of Abilene,

to proclaim the Lord's year of favour.

And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have ample stores laid up for many a year; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry."'

But the man replied, 'Leave it for this year, sir, till I dig round about it and put in manure.

Then it may bear fruit next year. If not, you can have it cut down.'"