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11 aAnd Jesus went into Jerusalem and into the temple. So when He had looked around at all things, as the hour was already late, He went out to Bethany with the twelve.  

The Fig Tree Withered

12 aNow the next day, when they had come out from Bethany, He was hungry.  
13 aAnd seeing from afar a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if perhaps He would find something on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.  
14 In response Jesus said to it, “Let no one eat fruit from you ever again.” And His disciples heard it.

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

15 aSo they came to Jerusalem. Then Jesus went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold bdoves.  
16 And He would not allow anyone to carry wares through the temple.
17 Then He taught, saying to them, “Is it not written, a‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a b‘den of thieves.’ ”  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Mark 11:13

And seeing a fig tree—(In Matthew 21:19, it is "one fig tree," but the sense is the same as here, "a certain fig tree," as in Matthew 8:19, etc.). Bethphage, which adjoined Bethany, derives his name from its being a fig region—"House of figs."

afar off having leaves—and therefore promising fruit, which in the case of figs come before the leaves.

he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet—What the precise import of this explanation is, interpreters are not agreed. Perhaps all that is meant is, that as the proper fig season had not arrived, no fruit would have been expected even of this tree but for the leaves which it had, which were in this case prematurely and unnaturally developed.




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