Matthew 21:19
Seeing a fig tree along the roadside, he went to it and found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, “May there be no fruit from you ever again,” and immediately the fig tree withered.
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In Context
18Now in the morning as he returned to the city, he was hungry.
20When the disciples saw it, they marveled and said, “How did the fig tree immediately wither away?”
Cross References
Mark 11:14He spoke to it, “No one will ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it.
Luke 13:6Jesus told this parable, “Someone had a fig tree planted in his vineyard and he came and looked for fruit on it but found none.
John 15:2He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and he prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.
2 Timothy 3:5They will have a shape of godliness, but they will deny its power. Turn away from these people.
Hebrews 6:7For the land that drinks in the rain that often comes on it, and that gives birth to the plants useful to those for whom the land was worked—this is the land that receives a blessing from God.
Jude 1:12These are the ones who are hidden reefs in your love feasts, when they feast with you shamelessly—shepherds who only feed themselves. They are clouds without rain, carried along by winds. They are autumn trees without fruit—twice dead, torn up by the roots.
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 →