The Withered Fig-Tree

20. And in the morning The early morning of Tuesday in Holy Week.

as they passed by On their return to the Holy City.

dried up from the roots From St Matthew (Matthew 21:19) it would appear that "some beginnings of the threatened withering began to shew themselves, almost as soon as the word of the Lord was spoken; a shuddering fear may have run through all the leaves of the tree, which was thus stricken at its heart." Trench.

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