Verse Matthew 21:19. _HE SAW A FIG TREE IN THE WAY_] επι της οδου, _By the_ _road side_. As this fig tree was by the _way side_, it was no _private_ property; and on this account our Lord, or any oth...
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)...
A. one (single). IN. on. Greek. _epi._ App-104. TO. up to. Greek. _epi_. FOUND NOTHING. See notes on Mark 11:13. FOR EVER. for the age (see App-151. a.), i.e. to the end of that Dispensation. The f...
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....
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...
ΟΥ̓ ΜΗΚΈΤΙ BL, whereas א C D and later uncials omit οὐ. The accidental omission, however, is more probable than the insertion of οὐ, and the reading in Mark (μηκέτι without οὐ) may have influenced the...
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...
ΊΔΏΝ _aor. act. part., см._ Matthew 21:15. ΣΥΚΉΝ _acc. sing. от_ ΣΥΚΉ (G4808) смоковница. Смоковница символизирует Иерусалим/ Израиль, который перестал плодоносить (Gnilka; ВВС), ΜΊΑΝ _асс. sing. fe...
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...
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...
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...
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...
IN THE WAY. — Better, _on the road._ Fig-trees were often planted by the road-side under the notion that dust suited them. HE CAME TO IT. — St. Mark adds, what St. Matthew indeed implies, that He came...
Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
συκῆν μίαν : εἶς in late Greek was often used for τις, but the meaning here probably is that Jesus looking around saw a solitary fig tree. ἐπὶ τῆς ὁδοῦ, by the wayside, not necessarily above (Meyer)....
_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....
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 BARREN FIG-TREE Matthew 21:18-19; Mark 11:12-14. _“And on the following day, they having come out from Bethany, He was hungry.”_ Doubtless He had enjoyed the kind hospitality of Mary, Martha, and...
"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...
19_Let no fruit grow on thee henceforth. _Let us learn from this what is the meaning of the word _curse, _namely, that the tree should be condemned to barrenness; as, on the other hand, God _blesses,...
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 HE SAW A FIG TREE,.... In the Greek text it is "one fig tree", one remarkable fig tree: he must see a great many, as he went along; for a large tract of the Mount Of Olives was full of fig tr...
And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered...
_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...
LET NO FRUIT GROW ON THEE HENCE - FORWARD; the cursing of the fig-tree was a symbolical act designed to shadow forth the awful end of nations, communities, and individuals, that fail to bring forth fr...
THE CURSING OF THE FIG-TREE. Matthew 21:17...
AND WHEN HE SAW A FIG-TREE IN THE WAY, HE CAME TO IT, AND FOUND NOTHING THEREON BUT LEAVES ONLY, AND SAID UNTO IT. LET NO FRUIT GROW ON THEE HENCE FORWARD FOREVER. AND PRESENTLY THE FIG-TREE WITHERED...
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"....
Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book VIII and did not discover (any). Wherefore, he says, He cursed the fig-tree,[8] Peter of Alexandria Canonical Epistle and the leopard's spots, it shall be...
Matthew 21:19 And G2532 seeing G1492 (G5631) a G3391 tree G4808 by G1909 road G3598 came G2064 ...
‘And seeing a fig tree by the way side, he came to it, and found nothing on it, but leaves only. And he says to it, “Let there be no fruit from you from now on for ever.” ' In an abbreviated account...
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...
Matthew 21:19. A SINGLE (lit., ‘one') FIG TREE. A solitary one. BY THE WAY SIDE, where it was customary to plant such trees, as the dust was thought to help the productiveness. BUT LEAVES ONLY. Mar...
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...
A FIG TREE (συκην μιαν). "A single fig tree" (Margin of Rev. Version). But εις was often used = τις or like our indefinite article. See Matthew 8:10; Matthew 26:69. The Greek has strictly no indefin...
FIG TREE Literally, a solitary fig tree. (Luke 13:6). The withered fig tree is a parabolic miracle concerning Israel. (Luke 13:6). Compare (Matthew 24:32); ...
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...
HE SAW A FIG TREE. Fig trees bear fruit first, then leaves. Fruit would form as early as February and be fully ripe as early as April. Mark says: _"because it was not the right time for figs."_ But al...
_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...
JESUS CLEARS THE TEMPLE MATTHEW 21:10-19; MARK 11:11-19; LUKE 19:45-48; MATTHEW 21:10 And when he was come into Jerusalem,
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 He saw a fig tree in, the way, He came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it Let no fruit grow on thee hencefoward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered...
_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...
2 Peter 2:20; 2 Timothy 3:5; Hebrews 6:7; Hebrews 6:8; Isaiah 5:4;...
A fig - tree [σ υ κ η ν μ ι α ν]. Lit., one single fig - tree. Rev., in margin. Presently [π α ρ α χ ρ η μ α]. Presently, in popular speech, has acquired something of a future force. I will do such a...
(CF. MARK 11:12-14; MARK 11:20)— When was the fig tree cursed by Jesus, before or after the temple was cleansed? PROBLEM: Matthew places the cursing of the fig tree after the cleansing of the temple....