Matthew 21:20

When the disciples saw this, they exclaimed in astonishment, “How suddenly the fig tree withered up!”

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In The King James Version

And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away!

In Context

19and, noticing a solitary fig tree by the roadside, he went up to it, but found nothing on it but leaves. So he said to it, “Never again will fruit be gathered off you.” And suddenly the fruit tree withered up.

21“I tell you,” replied Jesus, “if you have faith and don’t doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you were to say to this hill ‘Be lifted up and hurled into the sea!’ it would be done.

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Cross References

James 1:10but a rich follower of their humiliation; for the rich will pass away like a wild flower.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 21:19-23

The Barren Fig-Tree Cursed. 18 Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. 19 And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away. 20 And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away! 21 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do… Read the whole commentary →

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