Luke 13:9 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 13:6-9

This parable is intended to enforce that word of warning immediately going before, ?Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish; except you be reformed, you will be ruined, as the barren tree, except it bring forth fruit, will be cut down.? I. This parable primarily refers to the nation and people of the Jews. God chose them for his own, made them a people near to him, gave them advantages for knowing and serving him above any other people, and expected answerable returns of duty and... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 13:6-9

13:6-9 Jesus spoke this parable, "A man had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard. He came looking for fruit on it and did not find it. He said to the keeper of the vineyard, 'Look you--for the last three years I have been coming and looking for fruit on this fig-tree, and I still am not finding any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the ground' 'Lord,' he answered him, 'let it be this year too, until I dig round about it and manure it, and if it bears fruit in the coming year, well and good;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 13:9

And if it bear fruit, well ,.... If hereby barren professors, as the Jews, become fruitful, it is well, a good thing is done; it is well for themselves, they shall eat the fruit of their doings; it is well for the churches where they are, for good works are profitable to men; and it is well for the owner of the vineyard, and the dresser of it too, for when Christ has his fruit from his churches, his ministers have theirs also: and if not , then after that ; "for the time to come", as... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 13:1-9

Signs of the times. The Lord continues his solemn warnings. Israel pictured in the parable of the barren fig tree. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 13:1-9

The barren fig tree. "At that season," or "at that particular time "-whilst the pleading, warning words which follow from the forty-ninth verse of the previous chapter are ringing in the ears of those around the Lord—some bystanders tell him of judgments which had actually been fulfilled, of Galilaeans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. We have no information as to the particular event referred to. Riots, small insurrections, revolts from Roman authority, were by no... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 13:1-21

The grace and progress of God's kingdom. We saw at the close of last chapter how urgent a matter it is to get reconciled to God. Luke, in constructing his Gospel, introduces us next to a cognate thought—the necessity of repentance if judgment is to be escaped. Let us take up the orderly thoughts as they are laid before us in this passage. I. JUDGMENT EXECUTED UPON OTHERS IS A CALL TO REPENTANCE ADDRESSED TO US . (Verses 1-5.) There was a disposition then, as there... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 13:6-9

Fatal fruitlessness. We have to consider— I. THE PRIMARY SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PARABLE . What did the great Teacher intend his hearers to understand by his words? It was this (as I read it): 1 . The vineyard is the kingdom of God—that realm of truth and righteousness which he has been, from the beginning, establishing on the earth. 2 . Israel is the fig tree which God planted in his vineyard—a fig tree in a vineyard; there not by any natural right, but at the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Luke 13:8-9

Luke 13:8-9. And he said, Let it alone this year also Here we have the vine-dresser’s intercession for the barren fig-tree. Thus Christ the great Intercessor interceded for the Jewish Church and people, and thus, as he ever liveth, he continues to intercede for all unfruitful professors, and other sinners. And all faithful ministers of the gospel are intercessors for their flocks. They that dress the vineyard intercede for it, and pray for those to whom they preach. Observe, reader, the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Luke 13:1-9

97. Warning to the Jewish nation (Luke 13:1-9)Two recent tragedies were fresh in the minds of the Jewish people. One was caused by Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea, when he killed a number of Galilean Jews while they were offering sacrifices at the temple in Jerusalem. The other was caused by the collapse of a tower that killed a number of Jerusalem citizens. Some Jews thought that because the victims of these tragedies met such terrible deaths, they must have been worse sinners than others.... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Luke 13:9

if , &c. App-118 . not . Greek. mege, compound of me. App-105 . after that in (Greek. eis. App-104 .) the future. thou shalt . Note, not I will. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 13:6-9

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 13:6-9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 13:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 13:1-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 13:1-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 13:1-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 13:6-9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Luke 13:8-9

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Luke 13:1-9

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Luke 13:9

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