Mar 11 | TSK | STEP | Christ rides with triumph into Jerusalem; curses the fruitless fig-tree; purges the temple; exhorts his disciples to stedfastness of faith, and to forgive their enemies; and defends the lawfulness of his actions by the witness of John, who was a man sent of God. when. at the. he.

a fig-tree.The fig-tree, [suke ,] is a genus of the polygamia triaecia class of plants, seldom rising above twelve feet, but sending off from the bottom many spreading branches. The leaves are of a dark green colour, nearly a span long, smooth, and irregularly divided into from three to five deep rounded lobes; and the fruit grows on short and thick stalks, of a purplish colour, and contains a soft, sweet, and fragrant pulp, intermixed with numerous small seeds.

haply.

Ru 2:3; 1Sa 6:9; Lu 10:31; 12:6,7

he found.

Isa 5:7

for.Dr. Campbell observes, that the declaration, "for the time of [ripe, Ed.] figs was not yet," is not the reason why our Lord did not find any fruit on the tree, because the fig is of that class of vegetables in which the fruit is formed in its immature state before the leaves are seen. But as the fruit is of a pulpy nature, the broad, thick leaves come out in profusion to protect it from the rays of the sun during the time it is ripening. If the words, "for the time," etc. however, are read as a parenthesis, they then become a reason why Jesus Christ should look for fruit, because the season for gathering not having fully come, it would remove all suspicion that the fruit had been gathered: while the presence of the leaves incontestably proved the advance of the tree to the state in which fruit is found.

No.

20,21; Isa 5:5,6; Mt 3:10; 7:19; 12:33-35; 21:19,33,44; Joh 15:6

De 6:4-8; 11:26-31; 2Pe 2:20; Re 22:11

and Jesus.

Mt 21:12-16; Lu 19:45; Joh 2:13-17

the tables.

De 14:25,26

Is it.

1Ki 8:41-48; Isa 56:7; 60:7; Lu 19:46

of all nations the house of prayer. or, an house of prayerfor all nations. a den.

Jer 7:11; Ho 12:7; Joh 2:16

and.

3:6; 12:12; 14:1,2; Isa 49:7; Mt 21:15,38,39,45,46; 26:3,4; Lu 19:47

Joh 11:53-57

feared.

32; 6:20; 1Ki 18:17,18; 21:20; 22:8,18; Mt 21:46; Ac 24:25

Re 11:5-10

astonished.

1:22; Mt 7:28; Lu 4:22; Joh 7:46

11; Lu 21:37; Joh 12:36

they saw.Matthew informs us that this tree grew by the way-side, and was therefore not private, but public property; so that the destruction of it really injured no one. Our Lord was pleased to make use of this miracle to prefigure the speedy ruin of the Jewish nation, on account of its unfruitfulness under greater advantages than any other people enjoyed at that day; and, like all the rest of his miracles, it was done with a gracious intention, to alarm his countrymen, and induce them to repent.

See on ver.

14; Job 18:16,17; 20:5-7; Isa 5:4; 40:24; Mt 13:6; 15:13; 21:19,20

Joh 15:6; Heb 6:8; Jude 1:12

Pr 3:33; Zec 5:3,4; Mt 25:41; 1Co 16:22

Have.

9:23; 2Ch 20:20; Ps 62:8; Isa 7:9; Joh 14:1; Tit 1:1

faith in God. or, the faith of God.

Col 2:12

whosoever.

Mt 17:20; 21:21; Lu 17:6; 1Co 13:2

and shall.

Mt 14:13; Ro 4:18-25; Heb 11:17-19; Jas 1:5,6