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Mark 11:13
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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.’ ”  
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Mark 11:13

If haply he might find anything thereon (ei ara ti eurhsei en auth). This use of ei and the future indicative for purpose (to see if, a sort of indirect question) as in Acts 8:22; Acts 17:27. Jesus was hungry as if he had had no food on the night before after the excitement and strain of the Triumphal Entry. The early figs in Palestine do not get ripe before May or June, the later crop in August. It was not the season of figs, Mark notes. But this precocious tree in a sheltered spot had put out leaves as a sign of fruit. It had promise without performance.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Mark 11:13:

Matthew 21:19
Luke 13:7
Acts 8:22
Revelation 11:18

 

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