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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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seeing
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Mat 21:19; Luk 13:6-9 |
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a fig tree
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The fig-tree, [suke ( sukh= )] is a genus of the polygamia triaecia class of plants, seldom rising above twelve feet, but sending off from the bottom many spreading branches. The leaves are of a dark green colour, nearly a span long, smooth, and irregularly divided into from three to five deep rounded lobes; and the fruit grows on short and thick stalks, of a purplish colour, and contains a soft, sweet, and fragrant pulp, intermixed with numerous small seeds. |
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haply
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Rth 2:3; 1Sa 6:9; Luk 10:31; Luk 12:6,7 |
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he found
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Isa 5:7 |
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for
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"Dr. Campbell observes, that the declaration, ""for the time of [ripe, Ed.] figs was not yet,"" is not the reason why our LORD did not find any fruit on the tree, because the fig is of that class of vegetables in which the fruit is formed in its immature state before the leaves are seen. But as the fruit is of a pulpy nature, the broad, thick leaves come out in profusion to protect it from the rays of the sun during the time it is ripening. If the words, ""for the time,"" etc. however, are read as a parenthesis, they then become a reason why Jesus Christ should look for fruit, because the season for gathering not having fully come, it would remove all suspicion that the fruit had been gathered: while the presence of the leaves incontestably proved the advance of the tree to the state in which fruit is found." |
Correlating Passages
  
  
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Mat 21:19 |
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. |
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Luk 13:6 |
He spake also this parable; A certain [man] had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. |
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Luk 13:7 |
Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? |
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Luk 13:8 |
And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung [it]: |
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Luk 13:9 |
And if it bear fruit, [well]: and if not, [then] after that thou shalt cut it down. |
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Rth 2:3 |
And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field [belonging] unto Boaz, who [was] of the kindred of Elimelech. |
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1Sa 6:9 |
And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, [then] he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that [it is] not his hand [that] smote us: it [was] a chance [that] happened to us. |
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Luk 10:31 |
And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. |
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Luk 12:6 |
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? |
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Luk 12:7 |
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows. |
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Isa 5:7 |
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Mark 11:13," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Mar/11/13.html>.
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