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LUKE 13:7 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 13:6Luke 13:8
“Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?”
The synagogue leader's indignation — there are six days for work; come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath — reveals the religious establishment's inversion of the Sabbath's purpose. The Sabbath was given as rest from the bondage of Egypt; healing the bent-over woman is the Sabbath's fulfillment, not its violation. Jesus' livestock analogy makes the point with devastating simplicity.

Church Fathers on Luke 13:7

The Jews were boasting, that while the eighteen had perished, they all remained unhurt. He therefore sets before them the parable of the fig tree, for it follows, He spoke also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard.

TITUS BOST ·

There was a vineyard of the Lord of hosts, which He gave for a spoil to the Gentiles. And the comparison of the fig tree to the synagogue is well chosen, because as that tree abounds with wide and spreading foliage, and deceives the hopes of its possessor with the vain expectation of promised fruit, so also in the synagogue, while its teachers are unfruitful in good works, yet magnify themselves with words as with abundant leaves, the empty shadow of the law stretches far and…

Ambrose · 4th century

The Lord Himself who established the synagogue by Moses, came born in the flesh, and frequently teaching in the synagogue, sought for the fruits of faith, but in the hearts of the Pharisees found none; therefore it follows, And came seeking fruit on it, and found none.

Bede · 8th century
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