unto. Greek. pros.App-104.
dresser of vineyard. One word in Greek. Occurs only here. Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos.App-6.
these three years. Can refer only to the period of the Lord's ministry. The texts add aph' hou. from which, or since (three years). on. Greek. en. App-104.
cut it down. cut it out: i.e. from among the vines.
cumbereth it the ground. injureth it the soil also. The Authorized Version omits this "also", though it stands in the Greek text.
cumbereth. Greek. katargeo. Only here in the Gospels. Twenty-five times in the Epistles in the sense of vitiate. See Romans 3:3.