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?
8. `And he answering saith to him, Sir, suffer it also this year, till that I may dig about it, and cast in dung;
9. and if indeed it may bear fruit--;and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.'