George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Matthew 21:20
The disciples, &c. This surprise of the disciples, at the sudden withering of the fig-tree, happened the following morning. See Mark xi. 20.
The disciples, &c. This surprise of the disciples, at the sudden withering of the fig-tree, happened the following morning. See Mark xi. 20.
Verse Matthew 21:20. _HOW SOON IS THE FIG TREE WITHERED AWAY!_] We often say to our neighbours, "How suddenly this man died! Who could have expected it so soon?" But who takes warning by these example...
This paragraph contains the account of the barren fig-tree, and of the cleansing of the temple. See also Mark 11:12; Luke 19:45. Matthew 21:12 And Jesus went into
9. THE KING ENTERS INTO JERUSALEM. The Parables of the Two Sons and the Householder and His Vineyard. CHAPTER 21 1. The King Enters Jerusalem. (Matthew 21:1 .) 2. The Second Cleansing of the Temple...
THE CURSING OF THE FIG TREE AND THE POWER OF FAITH (Mark 11:12 ff., Mark 11:20 *). What Mk. has severed, Mt. joins together. The miracle is enhanced by happening at once. The special mention of Peter...
When Jesus was returning to the city early in the morning, he was hungry. When he saw a fig tree by the roadside, he went up to it, and found nothing but leaves. He said to it, "Let no fruit come from...
THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST ACT (Matthew 21:1-11)...
HOW SOON, &C. Figure of speech _Erotesis_ (in wonder). App-6....
The Cursing of the Fig-Tree Mark 11:12-14; Mark 11:20-24. St Mark places this incident before the "Cleansing of the Temple," see note Matthew 21:12. 19 _a fig tree_ Rather, A SINGLE FIG-TREE....
_they marvelled_ It was rather the power and wonder of the act than the deeper significance of it that moved the disciples. The miracle was to them an "act of power" (δύναμις), or a "wonder" (τέρας),...
THE CURSING OF THE FIG-TREE Mark 11:12-14; Mark 11:20-24. St Mark places this incident before the ‘Cleansing of the Temple,’ see note Matthew 21:12-14. It is an interesting and leading instance of mir...
ἘΘΑΎΜΑΣΑΝ. It was rather the power and wonder of the act than the deeper significance of it that moved the disciples. The miracle was to them an ‘act of power’ (δύναμις), or a ‘wonder’ (τέρας), rather...
Ver 17. 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 ca...
_WITH THE FINISH IN SIGHT JESUS CAUSED A FIG TREE TO WITHER MATTHEW 21:18-22:_ The fig tree is unique in that the fruit and the leaves come at the same time. Mark wrote, "For the fig season had not ye...
ΈΘΑΎΜΑΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΘΑΥΜΆΖΩ (G611) дивиться, поражаться....
DISCOURSE: 1386 THE FIG-TREE CURSED Matthew 21:18. 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 thereon, but le...
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 the fig-...
SECTION 56 JESUS CURSES FIG TREE AND TEACHES DISCIPLES FAITH (Parallel: Mark 11:12-14; Mark 11:20-25) TEXT: 21:18-22 18 Now in the morning as he returned to the city, he hungered. 19 And seeing a...
And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? For the exposition, see Luke 19:1 after 5:44; and the notes at Mark 11:12. Now commences, as Alford remarks, that...
12 His first act as King was to cleanse the temple of idolatry, for covetousness is nothing less (Col_3:5). The temple tax, or double drachma (Mat_17:24) had to be paid by even the poorest of the peop...
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? Jesus did not explain its symbolical meaning, but made it...
CURSING OF THE FIG TREE (Mark 11:12 and Mark 11:20). St. Mark makes it clear that the fig tree was cursed on Monday morning as they left Bethany, but that the effect of the curse was not noticed till...
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, Nisan 8...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 21 JESUS ENTERS JERUSALEM 21:1-11 V1 As they came nearer to Jerusalem, they reached the town called Bethphage. It was on the Mount o...
AND WHEN THE DISCIPLES SAW IT. — Here again St. Mark’s narrative (Mark 11:20) seems at once the fullest and the most precise. As he relates the facts, the disciples did not perceive that the fig-tree...
Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
_The barren fig tree_ (Mark 11:12-14; Mark 11:19-26). The story of two morning journeys from Bethany to Jerusalem (_vide_ Mk.) is here compressed into one....
οἱ μαθηταὶ, etc.: the disciples wondered at the immediate withering of the tree. Did they expect it to die, as a diseased tree, gradually?...
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 teach h...
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 revea...
THE WITHERING OF THE FIG-TREE Matthew 21:20-22; Mark 11:20-26. _“And early in the morning, they, passing by, saw the fig-tree withered from its roots.”_ The withering was so decisive that even the tru...
"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 to...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
Afterwards (chapter 21), disposing of all that belonged to His willing people, He makes His entry into Jerusalem as King and Lord, according to the testimony of Zechariah. But although entering as Kin...
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 the...
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 skill, coul...
_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 when...
The lesson of the dry tree:...
AND WHEN THE DISCIPLES SAW IT, THEY MARVELED, SAYING, HOW SOON IS THE FIG-TREE WITHERED AWAY!...
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 ar...
18-22 This cursing of the barren fig-tree represents the state of hypocrites in general, and so teaches us that Christ looks for the power of religion in those who profess it, and the savour of it fr...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 21:22"....
Matthew 21:20 when G2532 disciples G3101 saw G1492 (G5631) marveled G2296 (G5656) saying G3004 (G5723) How...
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 now...
‘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 unusual occurrence is brought out by the disciples' q...
The cleansing of the temple and the cursing of the barren fig tree were closely connected. According to the fuller account of Mark, on the day of His triumphal entry our Lord looked round about the te...
CONTENTS: The triumphant entry. Jesus' second purification of the temple. Barren fig tree cursed. Jesus' authority questioned. Parable of the two sons in the vineyard. Parable of the house-holder dema...
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 grossiti...
_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 unders...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 21:18 Matthew discusses the cursing of the fig tree and the disciples’ reaction together, treating the events topically (compare note on v. Matthew 21:12). The tree was c
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 21:1 The Messiah Asserts His Authority over Jerusalem. Jesus’ authority over Jerusalem is revealed in his triumphal entry (Matthew 21:1), action
JESUS SAYS THE DISCIPLES CAN PRAY FOR ANYTHING MATTHEW 21:20-22; MARK 11:20-26; MATTHEW 21:20 And when the disciples saw [_it_], they marvelled,...
1-46 CHAPTER 21 _And when they were come nigh_, &c. Mark has (Mark 11:1), "And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, He sendeth forth two of His discip...
_And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away_! The Vulg. omits _fig tree_, which is found in the Greek and Syriac. This took place on the following da...
_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 with His...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 21:1 _Triumphal entry into Jerusalem_. (Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29; John 12:12.)...
Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, they were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, and then Jesus sent two disciples, saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and immediately...
Isaiah 40:6; James 1:10; James 1:11; Mark 11:20; Mark 11:21...
Before you can say 'come, ' and 'go, ' And breathe twice; and cry 'so so; ' Each one tripping on his toe Will be here. " Tempest, 4 1. Compare ver. 20. "How did the fig - tree immediately wither awa...
The disciples seeing it — As they went by, the next day....
The disciples being filled with admiration at the sudden withering of the fig-tree, thereupon our Saviour exhorts them to have FAITH IN GOD; that is, firmly to rely upon the power of God whereby he is...