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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST ACT (Matthew 21:1-11)...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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-...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1
CHAPTER 17
Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
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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)....
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_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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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THE CURSING OF THE FIG-TREE. Matthew 21:17...
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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...
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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...
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SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 21:22"....
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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...
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Matthew 21:19 And G2532 seeing G1492 (G5631) a G3391 tree G4808 by
G1909 road G3598 came G2064 ...
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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...
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‘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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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); ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 21:19 FOUND NOTHING ON IT BUT ONLY LEAVES.
See note on Mark 11:13–14.
⇐...
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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
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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
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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,
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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EXPOSITION
MATTHEW 21:1
_Triumphal entry into Jerusalem_. (Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29; John 12:12.)...
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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...
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2 Peter 2:20; 2 Timothy 3:5; Hebrews 6:7; Hebrews 6:8; Isaiah 5:4;...
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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...
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(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....