Deu 32:6, Isa 1:2-4, 21-23, 5:7, Mat 21:34, Mar 11:13, 12:2, Luk 13:7, 20:10-18 | TSK | STEP | requite. O foolish. thy father. hath brought. made thee.

but.The paronomasia, or play of words, is very remarkable here: he looked for {mishpat,} "judgment," but behold {mispach,} "oppression;" for {tzedakah,} "justice," but behold {tzëdkah,} "a cry."

oppression. Heb. a scab.

1:6; 3:17

a cry.

Ge 4:10; Ex 2:23,24; 3:7; 22:21-24,27; De 15:9; Ne 5:1-5

Job 31:38,39; 34:28; Pr 21:13; Lu 18:7; Jas 5:4

Matthew 21:34

he sent.

2Ki 17:13,14-23; 2Ch 36:15,16; Ne 9:29,30; Jer 25:3-7; 35:15

Zec 1:3-6; 7:9-13; Mr 12:2-5; Lu 20:10-19

that.

So 8:11,12; Isa 5:4

Mark 11:13

seeing.

Mt 21:19; Lu 13:6-9

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.

Mark 12:2

at.

Ps 1:3; Mt 21:34; Lu 20:10

a servant.

Jud 6:8-10; 2Ki 17:13; 2Ch 36:15; Ezr 9:11; Jer 25:4,5; 35:15; 44:4

Mic 7:1; Zec 1:3-6; 7:7; Lu 12:48; Joh 15:1-8; Heb 1:1

Luke 13:7

three.

Le 19:23; 25:21; Ro 2:4,5

cut.

3:9; Ex 32:10; Da 4:14; Mt 3:10; 7:19; Joh 15:2,6

why.

Ex 32:10; Mt 3:9

Luke 20:10-18

the season.

Ps 1:3; Jer 5:24; Mt 21:34-36; Mr 12:2-5

sent.

Jud 6:8-10; 2Ki 17:13; 2Ch 36:15,16; Ne 9:30; Jer 25:3-7; 26:2-6

Jer 35:15; 44:4,5; Ho 6:4-6; Zec 1:3-6; 7:9-13; Joh 15:16; Ro 7:4

beat.

11:47-50; 13:34; 1Ki 22:24; 2Ch 16:10; 24:19-21; Ne 9:26; Jer 2:30

Jer 20:2; 26:20-24; 29:26,27; 37:15,16; 38:4-6

entreated.

Mt 23:30-37; Ac 7:52; 1Th 2:2; Heb 11:36,37

and sent.

Ho 10:1

What.

Isa 5:4; Ho 6:4; 11:8

I will.

9:35; Mt 3:17; 17:5; Joh 1:34; 3:16,17,35,36; Ro 8:3; Ga 4:4

1Jo 4:9-15

it may.

Jer 36:3,7

reasoned.

5; Mt 16:7; 21:25

the heir.

Ps 2:1-6,8; 89:27; Mt 2:2-16; Ro 8:17; Heb 1:2

let.

19; 19:47; 22:2; Ge 37:18-20; Mt 27:21-25; Joh 11:47-50; Ac 2:23

Ac 3:15

they.

Heb 13:12

What.

Mt 21:37-40; Mr 12:6-9

destroy.

19:27; Ps 2:8,9; 21:8-10; Mt 21:41; 22:7; Ac 13:46

shall give.

Ne 9:36,37

beheld.

19:41; 22:61; Mr 3:5; 10:23

What.

22:37; 24:44; Joh 15:25

The stone.

Ps 118:22; Isa 28:16; Zec 3:9; Mt 21:42; Mr 12:10; Ac 4:11

1Pe 2:7,8

shall fall.This is an allusion to the Jewish mode of stoning. "The place of stoning was twice as high as a man. From the top of this one of the witnesses struck the culprit on the loins, and felled him to the ground: if he died of this, well; if not, the other witness threw a stone upon his heart," etc. Our Lord seems to refer not only to the dreadful crushing of the Jews by the Romans, but also to their general dispersion to the present day.

Isa 8:14,15; Da 2:34,35,44,45; Zec 12:3; Mt 21:34; 1Th 2:16