Bible Verses About Fig Tree: Barren, parable of

And he spake this simile: `A certain one had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit in it, and he did not find;

and he said unto the vine-dresser, Lo, three years I come seeking fruit in this fig-tree, and do not find, cut it off, why also the ground doth it render useless?

`And he answering saith to him, Sir, suffer it also this year, till that I may dig about it, and cast in dung;

and if indeed it may bear fruit--;and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.'

And he spake a simile to them: `See the fig-tree, and all the trees,

when they may now cast forth, having seen, of yourselves ye know that now is the summer nigh;

so also ye, when ye may see these things happening, ye know that near is the reign of God;