Matthew 24:32

Matthew 24:32. Now from the fig tree learn the parable, namely, what follows.

Putteth forth leaves, or ‘its leaves.' The blossoms precede the leaves, and when the leaves come, the fruit season is near. Comp. chap. Matthew 21:19. The cursing of the barren fig tree may be in mind even here. Alford: ‘As that, in its judicial unfruitfulness, emblematized the Jewish people, so here the putting forth of the fig tree from its state of winter dryness, symbolizes the future reviviscence of that race.'