Isaiah 40:6-8; James 1:10; James 1:11; Mark 11:20; Mark 11:21
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 . Matth...
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...
How soon, &c. Figure of speech Erotesis (in wonder). App-6.
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...
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 s...
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...
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 n...
The Triumphal Entry. Cleansing of the Temple Chronology of the Last Week of Christ's Life, commonly called Holy Week (chiefly after Hastings' 'Dic...
Cursing of the fig tree ( Mark 11:12-14 and Mark 11:20-25 ). St. Mark makes it clear that the fig tree was cursed on Monday morning as they left...
How soon] RV 'How did the fig tree immediately wither away?' The disciples, instead of asking the meaning of the miracle, ask how it was done? Jesu...
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 th...
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...
Fruitlessness Judged and Faith Rewarded Matthew 21:18-22 Men have found fault with our Lord for smiting this tree with barrenness. Yet what tea...
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 secre...
"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 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 sam...
And when the disciples saw it , they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away! Ver. 20. They marvelled, saying, &c. ] And w...
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 fro...
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...
The Barren Fig-Tree Cursed. 18 Now in the morning as he returned into the city, h...
See Poole on " Matthew 21:22 " .
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...
‘And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, “How did the fig tree immediately wither away?” The fact that its speedy withering was an un...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, How soon is the fig-tree withered away!
The lesson of the dry tree:
The disciples seeing it — As they went by, the next day.
20 And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away!