Luke - 13:8 Meaning
“And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:”
King James Version (KJV)
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
13:6-9 This parable of the barren fig-tree is intended to enforce the warning given just before: the barren tree, except it brings forth fruit, will be cut down. This parable in the first place refers to the nation and people of the Jews. Yet it is, without doubt, for awakening all that enjoy the means of grace, and the privileges of the visible church. When God has borne long, we may hope that he will bear with us yet a little longer, but we cannot expect that he will bear always.
“What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.”