The New Testament is filled to the brim with symbolic acts, but the Christian messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, was a master of this tactic. Jesus answered the toughest philosophical questions with stories ...

Jesus approaches the fig tree, sees that it has produced no fruit, and curses it. Then, right after that, he marches into the temple and condemns the rank commercialism he finds there.

Jesus approaches the fig tree, sees that it has produced no fruit, and curses it. Then, right after that, he marches into the temple and condemns the rank commercialism he finds there.

The fig tree symbolizes the religious leadership that had turned the temple, a house of prayer, into a marketplace. Jesus sees the religious leaders of his day like the fig tree: full of leaves ...

At this point in the Gospel, Jesus arrives in Jerusalem to complete his mission. Expain Jesus’ impatience with fig tree | Lifestyles | normantranscript.com Skip to main content ...

“Consider the fig tree…” (Luke 21:29). RV 20:1-4, 11—21:2; LK 21:29-33. In today’s gospel, Jesus expressed amazement at his contemporaries for their failure to read the signs of the times.

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 ...

Jesus approaches the fig tree, sees that it has produced no fruit, and curses it. Then, right after that, he marches into the temple and condemns the rank commercialism he finds there.

Jesus approaches the fig tree, sees that it has produced no fruit, and curses it. Then, right after that, he marches into the temple and condemns the rank commercialism he finds there.