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Main point summary
Jesus curses a fruitless fig tree and it withers. When His disciples ask about this, Jesus teaches them about faith.
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editing
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Matthew 21:17-22
nasb
And He left them and went
out of the city to a Bethany,
locative
and spent the night there.
series
a Now in the morning, when He was returning
to the city,
He became hungry.
temporal
Seeing a lone a fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it except leaves only;
and He * said to it,
“No longer shall there ever be any fruit from you.”
ideaexplanation
And at once the fig tree withered.
actionresult
progression
Seeing this, the disciples were amazed and asked,
“How did the fig tree wither all at once?”
And Jesus answered and said to them,
“Truly I say to you, a if you have faith
and do not doubt,
you will not only do what was done to the fig tree,
but even if you say to this mountain,
‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’
it will happen.
conditional
And a all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
questionanswer
Third class conditinal implying potential future action.
discourse
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Matthew 21:17-22
Cursing the Fig Tree
And He left them and went
out of the city to Bethany,
and spent the night there.
Now in the morning, when He was returning to the city,
He became hungry.
Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it except leaves only; and He said to it,
“No longer shall there ever be any fruit from you.”
And at once the fig tree withered.
Seeing this, the disciples were amazed and asked,
“How did the fig tree wither all at once?”
And Jesus answered and said to them,
“Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt,
you will not only do what was done to the fig tree,
but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’
it will happen.
And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
phrasing