For all the nations (πασιν τοις εθνεσιν). Mark alone has this phrase from Isa 56:7; Jeremiah 7:11. The people as well a…

The Venerable Bede: What the Lord had done figuratively when He cursed the barren fig tree, He now shows more openly by casting…

The first pa age quoted by Jesus is Isa 56:7, a prediction that non-Jews who worship God would be allowed to worship in the temple. By allowing the…

And he taught, saying unto them, is it not written
In (Isaiah 56:7) .

My house shall …

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…