Luke 13:1-9

Our summer preaching series looks at several of Jesus' parables from the Gospel of Luke. As Jesus traveled from Galilee to Jerusalem on his way to the cross, he told parables to the people he encountered along the journey in order to bring them to a deeper understanding of God's kingdom. As Jesus said to his disciples "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables..." (Luke 8:10).

Then he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it but did not find any…

— Luke 13:6