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17 And leaving them, He departed from the city and went out to Bethany and lodged there.

18 In the early dawn the next morning, as He was coming back to the city, He was hungry.

19 And as He saw [a]one single leafy fig tree [b]above the roadside, He went to it but He found nothing but leaves on it [[c]seeing that in the fig tree the fruit appears at the same time as the leaves]. And He said to it, Never again shall fruit grow on you! And the fig tree withered up at once.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 21:19 Literal meaning.
  2. Matthew 21:19 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  3. Matthew 21:19 James Orr et al., eds., International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.

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