Then he said to the tree, may no one ever eat fruit from you again. And his disciples heard him say it — the cursing of the fig tree is the only destructive miracle in the Gospels and the only miracle performed on a non-human subject. Its function is prophetic-symbolic: the fig tree in full leaf but without fruit is Israel in the temple with all the external forms of worship but without the kingdom's fruit. The disciples hear the curse — they are witnesses who will observe the next morning's withering.

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