And as they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots.MORE REGARDING THE FIG TREEThe pronouncement of Jesus against the freak fig tree produced a sudden and dramatic destruction of it. The tree had not merely wilted or begun to fade away; it had completely dried up, root and all, thus being in a condition that could hardly have been expected even if the tree had been cut down. read more
And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him. Rabbi, behold the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.The astonishment of all the disciples comes into view in these words of Peter who called attention to the dramatic result which followed the Lord's pronouncement against the tree. Peter evidently expected some comment from the Lord, which was promptly forthcoming. read more
And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou taken up and cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that what he saith cometh to pass; he shall have it.This reply must have astonished the apostles as much as it has the people who have been reading of it ever since it happened. There was not a word of the symbolical meaning of the destructive wonder (Christ would shortly foretell the... read more
Mark 11:21. Behold the fig-tree, &c.— Our Lord had said, Mark 11:14. No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. This St. Peter, according to the Jewish manner of speaking concerning things that are barren, calls cursing the fig-tree; (see Hebrews 6:8.) and some ill-disposed readers, not apprehending the proper force of the words, are apt to form a very unbecoming notion of our adorable Lord from this action; but they do so without the least cause, since every thing that he said on this... read more
Mark 11:22. Have faith in God.— Or, a divine faith; literally, the faith of God. And who could find fault, if the Creator and Proprietor of all things were to destroy, by a single word of his mouth, a thousand of his inanimate creatures, were it only to imprint this important lesson more deeply on one immortal spirit? See on Matthew 17:0. Inferences drawn from our Lord's cursing the fruitless fig-tree. When our Saviour had rode through the streets of Jerusalem, that evening he lodged not in the... read more
20. And in the morning—of Tuesday, the third day of the week: He had slept, as during all this week, at Bethany. as they passed by—going into Jerusalem again. they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots—no partial blight, leaving life in the root; but it was now dead, root and branch. In :- it is said it withered away as soon as it was cursed. But the full blight had not appeared probably at once; and in the dusk perhaps, as they returned to Bethany, they had not observed it. The precision... read more
21. And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him—satisfied that a miracle so very peculiar—a miracle, not of blessing, as all His other miracles, but of cursing—could not have been wrought but with some higher reference, and fully expecting to hear something weighty on the subject. Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away—so connecting the two things as to show that he traced the death of the tree entirely to the curse of his Lord. Matthew ( :-) gives this simply as... read more
22. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. read more
23. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed . . . he shall have whatsoever he saith—Here is the lesson now. From the nature of the case supposed—that they might wish a mountain removed and cast into the sea, a thing far removed from anything which they could be thought actually to desire—it is plain that not physical but moral obstacles to the progress of His kingdom were in the Redeemer's view, and that what He designed to teach was the great... read more
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Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Mark 11:19
And every evening he went forth out of the city.In addition to the reason for Jesus' leaving the city each night and staying either in Bethany or in some secluded place on the slopes of the Mount of Olives, which was cited under the above verse, there was also the evident purpose of our Lord to avoid identification, as much as possible, with any of the places previously accounted sacred. His sitting by Jacob's well (John 4:6) dignified a place not mentioned in the Old Testament, it being... read more