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Verse Matthew 21:20. _HOW SOON IS THE FIG TREE WITHERED AWAY!_] We
often say to our neighbours, "How suddenly this man died! Who could
have expected it so soon?" But who takes warning by these example...
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This paragraph contains the account of the barren fig-tree, and of the
cleansing of the temple. See also Mark 11:12; Luke 19:45.
Matthew 21:12
And Jesus went into
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9. THE KING ENTERS INTO JERUSALEM.
The Parables of the Two Sons and the Householder and His Vineyard.
CHAPTER 21
1. The King Enters Jerusalem. (Matthew 21:1 .) 2. The Second
Cleansing of the Temple...
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THE CURSING OF THE FIG TREE AND THE POWER OF FAITH (Mark 11:12 ff.,
Mark 11:20 *). What Mk. has severed, Mt. joins together. The miracle
is enhanced by happening at once. The special mention of Peter...
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THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST ACT (Matthew 21:1-11)...
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When Jesus was returning to the city early in the morning, he was
hungry. When he saw a fig tree by the roadside, he went up to it, and
found nothing but leaves. He said to it, "Let no fruit come from...
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HOW SOON, &C. Figure of speech _Erotesis_ (in wonder). App-6....
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The Cursing of the Fig-Tree
Mark 11:12-14; Mark 11:20-24. St Mark places this incident before the
"Cleansing of the Temple," see note Matthew 21:12.
19 _a fig tree_ Rather, A SINGLE FIG-TREE....
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_they marvelled_ It was rather the power and wonder of the act than
the deeper significance of it that moved the disciples. The miracle
was to them an "act of power" (δύναμις), or a "wonder"
(τέρας),...
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THE CURSING OF THE FIG-TREE
Mark 11:12-14; Mark 11:20-24. St Mark places this incident before the
‘Cleansing of the Temple,’ see note Matthew 21:12-14. It is an
interesting and leading instance of mir...
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ἘΘΑΎΜΑΣΑΝ. It was rather the power and wonder of the act
than the deeper significance of it that moved the disciples. The
miracle was to them an ‘act of power’ (δύναμις), or a
‘wonder’ (τέρας), rather...
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Ver 17. And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and
he lodged there. 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 ca...
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_WITH THE FINISH IN SIGHT JESUS CAUSED A FIG TREE TO WITHER MATTHEW
21:18-22:_ The fig tree is unique in that the fruit and the leaves
come at the same time. Mark wrote, "For the fig season had not ye...
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ΈΘΑΎΜΑΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΘΑΥΜΆΖΩ (G611)
дивиться, поражаться....
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DISCOURSE: 1386
THE FIG-TREE CURSED
Matthew 21:18. Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he
hungered. And when he saw a fig-tree in the way, he came to it, and
found nothing thereon, but le...
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NOW IN THE MORNING, &C.— I shall postpone the remarks on this
miracle to Mark 11 as it is there related with some circumstances
which require particular notice; observing that our Lord cursed the
fig-...
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SECTION 56
JESUS CURSES FIG TREE AND TEACHES DISCIPLES FAITH
(Parallel: Mark 11:12-14; Mark 11:20-25)
TEXT: 21:18-22
18
Now in the morning as he returned to the city, he hungered.
19
And seeing a...
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And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying,
Who is this?
For the exposition, see Luke 19:1 after 5:44; and the notes at Mark
11:12.
Now commences, as Alford remarks, that...
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12 His first act as King was to cleanse the temple of idolatry, for
covetousness is nothing less (Col_3:5). The temple tax, or double
drachma (Mat_17:24) had to be paid by even the poorest of the peop...
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HOW SOON] RV 'How did the fig tree immediately wither away?' The
disciples, instead of asking the meaning of the miracle, ask how it
was done? Jesus did not explain its symbolical meaning, but made it...
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CURSING OF THE FIG TREE (Mark 11:12 and Mark 11:20). St. Mark makes it
clear that the fig tree was cursed on Monday morning as they left
Bethany, but that the effect of the curse was not noticed till...
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THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE
Chronology of the Last Week of Christ's Life, commonly called Holy
Week (chiefly after Hastings' 'Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels').
Sabbath, Nisan 8...
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MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS
MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 21
JESUS ENTERS JERUSALEM 21:1-11
V1 As they came nearer to Jerusalem, they reached the town called
Bethphage. It was on the Mount o...
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AND WHEN THE DISCIPLES SAW IT. — Here again St. Mark’s narrative
(Mark 11:20) seems at once the fullest and the most precise. As he
relates the facts, the disciples did not perceive that the fig-tree...
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Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1
CHAPTER 17
Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
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οἱ μαθηταὶ, etc.: the disciples wondered at the immediate
withering of the tree. Did they expect it to die, as a diseased tree,
gradually?...
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_The barren fig tree_ (Mark 11:12-14; Mark 11:19-26). The story of two
morning journeys from Bethany to Jerusalem (_vide_ Mk.) is here
compressed into one....
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FRUITLESSNESS JUDGED AND FAITH REWARDED
Matthew 21:18-22
Men have found fault with our Lord for smiting this tree with
barrenness. Yet what teacher would not root up a plant, if he desired
to teach h...
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In this cleansing of the Temple for the second time-He had done the
same at the outset of His ministry- the Lord revealed His conception
of the secret of all civic righteousness and strength. He revea...
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_The disciples, &c. This surprise of the disciples, at the sudden
withering of the fig-tree, happened the following morning. See Mark
xi. 20._...
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THE WITHERING OF THE FIG-TREE
Matthew 21:20-22; Mark 11:20-26. _“And early in the morning, they,
passing by, saw the fig-tree withered from its roots.”_ The
withering was so decisive that even the tru...
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"And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he
lodged there. (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...
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We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem,
traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once
been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
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Afterwards (chapter 21), disposing of all that belonged to His willing
people, He makes His entry into Jerusalem as King and Lord, according
to the testimony of Zechariah. But although entering as Kin...
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AND WHEN THE DISCIPLES SAW IT,.... The next day in the morning, as
Mark says: they had, heard what Christ had said to it the day before,
as the same evangelist observes; but did not take notice of the...
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And when the disciples saw _it_, they marvelled, saying, How soon is
the fig tree withered away!
Ver. 20. _They marvelled, saying, &c._] And well they might, for no
conjurer, with all his skill, coul...
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_In the morning, as he returned, he hungered_ For, being a man, he was
subject to all the innocent infirmities of our nature, and he had come
out from Bethany early without eating any thing: _And when...
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The lesson of the dry tree:...
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AND WHEN THE DISCIPLES SAW IT, THEY MARVELED, SAYING, HOW SOON IS THE
FIG-TREE WITHERED AWAY!...
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It is a moment of most serious significance as the Lord is now about
to enter Jerusalem. He is to be publicly presented to Israel, yet in
lowly grace, not in power and majesty. Two of His disciples ar...
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18-22 This cursing of the barren fig-tree represents the state of
hypocrites in general, and so teaches us that Christ looks for the
power of religion in those who profess it, and the savour of it fr...
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Matthew 21:20 when G2532 disciples G3101 saw G1492 (G5631) marveled
G2296 (G5656) saying G3004 (G5723) How...
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‘And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, “How did
the fig tree immediately wither away?”
The fact that its speedy withering was an unusual occurrence is
brought out by the disciples' q...
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THE ACTED OUT PARABLE OF THE END OF THE OLD UNBELIEVING ISRAEL
(21:18-22).
Having made clear by His actions that the old unbelieving Israel in
the person of its leaders will not receive Him, Jesus now...
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The cleansing of the temple and the cursing of the barren fig tree
were closely connected. According to the fuller account of Mark, on
the day of His triumphal entry our Lord looked round about the te...
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CONTENTS: The triumphant entry. Jesus' second purification of the
temple. Barren fig tree cursed. Jesus' authority questioned. Parable
of the two sons in the vineyard. Parable of the house-holder dema...
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Matthew 21:1. _When they were come to Bethphage._ The rabbins dispute
about the etymon of this village, whether it mean the “house of the
fountain,” as is the literal import; or the “house of
grossiti...
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_And when he saw a fig-tree in the way, He came to it, and found
nothing thereon._
THE BARREN FIG-TREE
I. The destruction of this tree was not an act of injustice. People
find it difficult to unders...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 21:18 Matthew discusses the cursing of the
fig tree and the disciples’ reaction together, treating the events
topically (compare note on v. Matthew 21:12). The tree was c
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 21:1 The Messiah Asserts His Authority over
Jerusalem. Jesus’ authority over Jerusalem is revealed in his
triumphal entry (Matthew 21:1), action
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JESUS SAYS THE DISCIPLES CAN PRAY FOR ANYTHING MATTHEW 21:20-22; MARK
11:20-26; MATTHEW 21:20 And when the disciples saw [_it_], they
marvelled,...
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1-46
CHAPTER 21
_And when they were come nigh_, &c. Mark has (Mark 11:1), "And when
they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount
of Olives, He sendeth forth two of His discip...
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_And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is
the fig tree withered away_! The Vulg. omits _fig tree_, which is
found in the Greek and Syriac. This took place on the following da...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Matthew 21:18. HE HUNGERED.—His hungering is pretty good evidence
that He had not been staying in the house of Martha and Mary. Most
likely He had been much with Himself and with His...
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EXPOSITION
MATTHEW 21:1
_Triumphal entry into Jerusalem_. (Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29; John 12:12.)...
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Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, they were come to Bethphage,
unto the mount of Olives, and then Jesus sent two disciples, saying
unto them, Go into the village over against you, and immediately...
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Isaiah 40:6; James 1:10; James 1:11; Mark 11:20; Mark 11:21...
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Before you can say 'come, ' and 'go, ' And breathe twice; and cry 'so
so; ' Each one tripping on his toe Will be here. "
Tempest, 4 1.
Compare ver. 20. "How did the fig - tree immediately wither awa...
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The disciples seeing it — As they went by, the next day....
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The disciples being filled with admiration at the sudden withering of
the fig-tree, thereupon our Saviour exhorts them to have FAITH IN GOD;
that is, firmly to rely upon the power of God whereby he is...