Parable of the barren fig tree parable is found only in Luke's gospel, the other two synoptics include instead the cursing the fig tree with some remarkable coincidences. There is no strong argument against authenticity. A majority of the members of the Jesus Seminar voted it authentic. Parable of the barren fig tree The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree (not to be confused with the parable of the budding fig tree) is a parable of Jesus which appears in . It is about a fig tree which does not produce fruit. The parable is as follows: In this parable, the owner is generally regarded as
Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan use until a church could be built. In 1889, Wallis Nash, a lawyer from England who came to Corvallis to work on the railroad, constructed the area's first Episcopal church on the corner of Jefferson and 7th (later moved to Madison and 7th) using materials salvaged from the original school chapel. The same year, Bishop Benjamin Wistar Morris proposed to name it the Church of the Good Samaritan, and the vestry approved. The building was designed in the Carpenter Gothic style. In 1960, after the congregation moved to a new facility, the original church was sold to the Elks and