Matthew 21:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away! ”

Matthew 21:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This paragraph contains the account of the barren fig-tree, and of the cleansing of the temple. See also Mark 11:12-19 ; Luke 19:45-48 . Matthew 21:12 And Jesus went into the temple of God...
Matthew 21:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Cursing of the Fig Tree and the Power of Faith ( Mark 11:12 ff., Mark 11:20-26 *). What Mk. has severed, Mt. joins together. The miracle is enhanced by happening at once. The special mention...
Matthew 21:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

How soon, &c. Figure of speech Erotesis (in wonder). App-6.
Matthew 21:20 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1386 THE FIG-TREE CURSED Matthew 21:18-22 . Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. And when he saw a fig-tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing there...
Matthew 21:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And when the disciples saw it , they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away! How soon is the fig tree withered away! - We often say to our neighbors, "How suddenly this man died!...
Matthew 21:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Now in the morning, &c.— I shall postpone the remarks on this miracle to Mark 11 as it is there related with some circumstances which require particular notice; observing that our Lord cursed...
Matthew 21:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? For the exposition, see Luke 19:1-48 after 5:44; and the notes at Mark 11:12-26 . Now commences, as Alford...
Matthew 21:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Triumphal Entry. Cleansing of the Temple Chronology of the Last Week of Christ's Life, commonly called Holy Week (chiefly after Hastings' 'Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels'). Sabbath, Nis...
Matthew 21:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And when the disciples saw it. — Here again St. Mark’s narrative ( Mark 11:20-21 ) seems at once the fullest and the most precise. As he relates the facts, the disciples did not perceive that the f...
Matthew 21:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Matthew 22:1-46 ; Matthew 23:1-39 Chapter 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18-46 - Matthew 22:1-46 - Matthew 23:1-39 IT had been written that the Lord should suddenly come to His...
Matthew 21:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Fruitlessness Judged and Faith Rewarded Matthew 21:18-22 Men have found fault with our Lord for smiting this tree with barrenness. Yet what teacher would not root up a plant, if he desired to t...
Matthew 21:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this cleansing of the Temple for the second time-He had done the same at the outset of His ministry- the Lord revealed His conception of the secret of all civic righteousness and strength. He reve...
Matthew 21:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

"And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there. (18) Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. (19) And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came t...
Matthew 21:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And when the disciples saw it ,.... The next day in the morning, as Mark says: they had, heard what Christ had said to it the day before, as the same evangelist observes; but did not take notice of...
Matthew 21:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And when the disciples saw it , they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away! Ver. 20. They marvelled, saying, &c. ] And well they might, for no conjurer, with all his skil...
Matthew 21:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

In the morning, as he returned, he hungered For, being a man, he was subject to all the innocent infirmities of our nature, and he had come out from Bethany early without eating any thing: And whe...
Matthew 21:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

It is a moment of most serious significance as the Lord is now about to enter Jerusalem. He is to be publicly presented to Israel, yet in lowly grace, not in power and majesty. Two of His disciples a...
Matthew 21:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Barren Fig-Tree Cursed. 18 Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. 19 And when he saw a fig tree in the...
Matthew 21:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

See Poole on " Matthew 21:22 " .
Matthew 21:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Acted Out Parable Of The End Of The Old Unbelieving Israel (21:18-22). Having made clear by His actions that the old unbelieving Israel in the person of its leaders will not receive Him, Jesus...
Matthew 21:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 21:18 . He hungered. —His hungering is pretty good evidence that He had not been staying in the house of Martha and Mary. Most likely He had been much with Himself and wit...
Matthew 21:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 21:1 . When they were come to Bethphage. The rabbins dispute about the etymon of this village, whether it mean the “house of the fountain,” as is the literal import; or the “house of gross...
Matthew 21:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

And when he saw a fig-tree in the way, He came to it, and found nothing thereon. The barren fig-tree I. The destruction of this tree was not an act of injustice. People find it difficult to und...
Matthew 21:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Matthew 21:1-40 Triumphal entry into Jerusalem . ( Mark 11:1-41 ; Luke 19:29-42 ; John 12:12-43 .) Matthew 21:1 We have come to the last week of our Lord's earthly life,...
Matthew 21:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, How soon is the fig-tree withered away!
Matthew 21:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 40:6-8 ; James 1:10 ; James 1:11 ; Mark 11:20 ; Mark 11:21
Matthew 21:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The disciples seeing it — As they went by, the next day.

Matthew 21:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Matthew 21:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 21:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Matthew 21:20 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Matthew 21:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Matthew 21:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Matthew 21:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Matthew 21:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 21:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Matthew 21:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Matthew 21:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Matthew 21:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Matthew 21:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Matthew 21:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Matthew 21:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Matthew 21:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 21:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 21:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew 21:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Matthew 21:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 21:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Matthew 21:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 21:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

Matthew 21:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Matthew 21:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Matthew 21:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 21:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes