Parables

Outline XIII The Barren Fig Tree For the parable read Luke 13:6­9. For the setting, one ought to read the first five verses of the chapter, and it would be well to read the preceding chapter, espec­ially from vs. 41 on. The Story: In this parable Jesus tells of a fig tree a man had planted in his vine­yard. We are accustomed to see vineyards that are one unbroken array of vines: in Palestine it was otherwise. Fruit trees were plant­ed about in the vineyard, wherever they would take root in...