National Catholic Register: Why Does Jesus Curse the Fig Tree, 7 Habits to Help Grow in Holiness, How to Hear God, and More!
Why Does Jesus Curse the Fig Tree, 7 Habits to Help Grow in Holiness, How to Hear God, and More!
The context provides a clue. At this point in the Gospel, Jesus arrives in Jerusalem to complete his mission. The cross looms large. He is hungry and sees a fig tree in the distance that is “covered ...
Wichita Eagle: Voices of Faith: What about Jesus’ impatience with fig tree?
Charlotte Observer: Voices of Faith: What explains Jesus’ impatience with the fig tree?
Voices of Faith offers perspectives from religion columnists. This week’s question: What explains Jesus’ impatience with the fig tree? A parable on leadership The Rev. Joe Nassal, priest at Precious ...
Slip under the shade of a fig tree with me and listen to the unusual way Jesus told one of his future disciples that exciting days were just ahead. “Very truly I tell you,” Jesus told Nathanael in ...
When Jesus approached the fig tree, He expected to find fruit. The tree was in the right place and season to produce, yet it was not prepared to yield. Jesus knew it should be bearing fruit because, ...
And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found ...