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...