Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Luke 13:6 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 6. 6He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.
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Quick Meaning
Luke 13:6 records the speech or response at Luke 13:6 within Luke 13:1–13:9: “He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none”.
Read It With
- Luke 13:1–13:9
Read Luke 13:6 with 13:1–13:9. Luke 13:6 records the speech or response at Luke 13:6 within Luke 13:1–13:9: “He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none”. The complete unit's controlling movement is: Jesus rejects the inference that Galilean victims or people killed by a falling tower were worse sinners, calls all hearers to repent, and tells of a fruitless fig tree receiving limited, cultivated time.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Luke 13:6 records the speech or response at Luke 13:6 within Luke 13:1–13:9: “He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none”. This selected detail moves Luke 13:1–13:9 from its initiating question or action toward the unit's response and prepares Luke's next movement.
What Remains True
Luke 13:6 records the speech or response at Luke 13:6 within Luke 13:1–13:9: “He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none”. Read inside Luke 13:1–13:9, this contribution supports the unit's proportionate truth: Jesus rejects the inference that Galilean victims or people killed by a falling tower were worse sinners, calls all hearers to repent, and tells of a fruitless fig tree receiving limited, cultivated time. Its use remains accountable to affected people and the unit's explicit boundary.
How It Can Shape Life
- When teaching Luke 13:6, explain this exact contribution inside Luke 13:1–13:9, identify the unit's source-controlled uncertainty, and refuse this misuse before proposing action: The passage does not blame victims, rank suffering by sin, predict disasters, excuse preventable negligence, or promise unlimited delay.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Luke 13:1–13:9 — Tragedies Call Everyone to Repentance, Not Victim BlameSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and coverage.
Exact location: Luke 13:1–13:9, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and sentence relations; the edition is not treated as a complete apparatus.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT official repository, data/sblgnt/text/Luke.txt, 13:1–13:9
Open the Luke Greek text file ↗open translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Luke
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, KJV-language clarification, historical notes, Synoptic parallels, and textual alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Luke PDF, exact tn/tc/sn entries attached to Luke 13:1–13:9
Open source ↗