Matthew 21:18

Now in the early morning, returning to the city, He became hungry.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.

In Context

17And having left them, He went out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there. 1 Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

19And seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it and found nothing on it but leaves, and said to it, “May no fruit come from you ever again!” And immediately the fig tree withered away.

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Cross References

Matthew 12:1At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on the Sabbath. And His disciples became hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.

Mark 11:20Now in the morning while passing by, they saw the fig tree dried up from its roots.

Hebrews 4:15For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but having been tempted in all respects in quite the same way as we are, yet without sin.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 21:13-18

The Profaners of the Temple Punished. 12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, 13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. 14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. 15 And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the… Read the whole commentary →

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