Luke 13:6. And He was saying this in a Parable: “Someone had a fig tree planted in his orchard, and he came seeking fruit on it but he did not find any. 7. So he said to the Gardener, ‘See, for three years I have been coming looking for fruit on this fig tree and I have not found any: so why does it use up the ground? Therefore you must now cut it.’ 8. And he said to him, ‘Sir, you must permit it just this year, until I shall dig around it and I would put fertilizer on it, 9. and see if indeed it makes fruit in that year: then if it does not, you can cut it.’”