MATTHEW 21:19 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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.”
And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it: may no fruit ever come from you again! And the fig tree withered at once. The fig tree with leaves but no fruit is the prophetic sign of Israel's religious establishment: outward appearance without the fruit of genuine faith and covenant faithfulness. The immediate withering is the enacted prophecy of judgment. Mark's Gospel has the cursing on one day and the disciples' discovery of the withered tree the next; Matthew compresses the timeline.
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