Mark 11:19

Mark 11:19

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.’ ”

18 And ^athe scribes and chief priests heard it and sought how they might destroy Him; for they feared Him, because ^ball the people were astonished at His teaching.

19 When evening had come, He went out of the city.

The Lesson of the Withered Fig Tree

20 ^aNow in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.

21 And Peter, remembering, said to Him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered away.”

22 So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Every evening (otan oye egeneto). Literally,

whenever evening came on or more exactly

whenever it became late. The use of otan (ote an) with the aorist indicative is like opou an with the imperfect indicative (eiseporeueto) and osoi an with the aorist indicative (hyanto) in Mark 6:56. The use of an makes the clause more indefinite and general, as here, unless it renders it more definite, a curious result, but true. Luke 21:37 has the accusative of extent of time, "the days," "the nights." The imperfect tense he (or they) would go (eceporeueto, eceporeuonto) out of the city suggests "whenever" as the meaning here.

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