Mark 11:20

πρωΐ. This was the following morning (Tuesday), the day in that week about which we have most information, excepting Friday. But the interval between the first and second seeing of the tree may have been shortened in tradition. Mt., as often, enhances the miracle. He banishes the interval altogether; “the fig-tree immediately withered away,” and the Apostles (not Peter only) express their astonishment at the suddenness of the result. No doubt Mk is nearer the truth in both particulars. There was a considerable interval, and it was Mk’s instructor who called attention to the fulfilment of Christ’s prediction. The tree may have contributed to its own death by exhausting itself with its premature abundance of foliage.