_CHRIST RIDETH WITH TRIUMPH INTO JERUSALEM: CURSETH THE FRUITLESS FIG-TREE; PURGETH THE TEMPLE: EXHORTETH HIS DISCIPLES TO STEADFASTNESS OF FAITH, AND TO FORGIVE THEIR ENEMIES: AND DEFENDETH THE LAWFULNESS OF HIS ACTIONS, BY THE WITNESS OF JOHN, AT A MAN SENT FROM GOD._ _Anno Domini 33._... [ Continue Reading ]
GO YOUR WAY, &C.— _Go to the village there before you._ Heylin. _To yonder village that faces you._ Version of 1729. Our Saviour probably pointed with his finger to the village.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN-TIDE— Or, _evening._... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SEEING A FIG-TREE, &C.— The time of the year when this event happened, was undoubtedly three or four days before the passover at which our Saviour was crucified; and the passover that year fell in the beginning of April. Upon this it is inquired, "How would Christ expect to find figs on the tree... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO IT,— _And Jesus said to it upon this occasion._ Doddridge. See the note on Matthew 11:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
ANY VESSEL— Or _utensil;_ that is, any kind of burden. See John 2:14; John 2:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD THE FIG-TREE, &C.— Our Lord had said, Mark 11:14. _No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever._ This St. Peter, according to the Jewish manner of speaking concerning things that are barren, calls _cursing_ the fig-tree; (see Hebrews 6:8.) and some ill-disposed readers, not apprehending the p... [ Continue Reading ]
HAVE FAITH IN GOD.— Or, _a divine faith;_ literally, _the faith of God._ And who could find fault, if the Creator and Proprietor of all things were to destroy, by a single word of his mouth, a thousand of his inanimate creatures, were it only to imprint this important lesson more deeply on one immor... [ Continue Reading ]