The Parable of the Fig Tree
This week on Cultivate, Charlie and Abigail work through one of the shortest and strangest parables Jesus ever told — the Parable of the Fig Tree in Luke 13. It's only four verses. It doesn't resolve. And Jesus drops it almost as an aside, mid-crowd, without anyone asking for it.
A vineyard owner has a fig tree that hasn't produced fruit in three years. He tells the gardener to cut it down — it's wasting soil. The gardener pushes back: give it one more year, let me tend to it, and if it still doesn't produce, then cut it down. And then the story just... stops. We never find out if the owner…
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