No man eat fruit from thee henceforward forever (Μηκετ εις τον αιωνα εκ σου μηδεις καρπον φαγο). The verb φαγο is in the second ao…

And on the next day.—On the chronological difficulty presented by this verse, see Note on Matthew 21:18-19.

For t…

The Venerable Bede: As the time of His passion approached, the Lord chose to go to the place of His passion to show that He und…

Jesus addressed the tree directly and by his words performed a miracle of destruction (the only such miracle in the Gospels). It is best seen as an…

And Jesus answered and said unto it
The fig tree; a Jewish way of speaking, often used when nothing before is said; …

Christ looked for some fruit, because the time for gathering figs, though near, had not yet come; but he found none. He made this fig tree an examp…