Luke 13:7-9

7He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it even waste the soil?’

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

9Perhaps it will produce fruit next year, but if not, you can cut it down.’”