Mark 11:13 (WEB)
Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
Fathers and councils · 16
Athanasius of Alexandria
- Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.5Discourse III
“In Paradise God asks, ‘Adam, where art Thou’ and He inquires of Cain also, ‘Where is Abel thy brother?’” — editor's note: S. Chrysostom, S. Ambrose, and Pope Gregory, in addition to the instances in the text, refer to ‘I will go down now, and see whether they have done, &c., and…
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Gregory the Great
“…as to what you have said about the fig-tree, Augustine speaks aptly in the same sense; for, when the evangelist subjoined, For the time of figs was not yet (Mark xi. 13), it is plainly shown that the figs which the Lord had sought were fruit in the synagogue, which had the leaves of the Law, but not the fruit of…” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“Wished Christ to eat, when He sought fruit on the tree, and if He had found, would He have eaten?” — editor's note: Mark xi. 13.
Read the whole comment“Then the said Mark subjoins the statement that He came into Jerusalem, and that, on going into the temple, He cast out those who sold and bought there, as if that incident took place not on the first day specified, but on a different day.” — editor's note: Mark xi. 11–17.
Read the whole comment“And this is especially plain, in that place where He sought fruit on the tree out of season, and because He found none, dried up the tree by His curse.” — editor's note: Mark xi. 13, etc.
Read the whole comment“But to this is added, that as we read it in the narrative of the other Evangelist who expressly mentions this, “it was not the time for that fruit.”” — editor's note: Mark xi. 13.
Read the whole comment“For he who says that Christ only worked miracles, for the miracles’ sake, may say too that He was ignorant that it was not the time for fruit, when He sought figs upon the fig-tree.” — editor's note: Vid. Serm. xxxix. (lxxxix. Ben.). Mark xi. 13.
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John Chrysostom
“Another evangelist saith, “The time of figs was not yet;”but if it was not time, how doth the other evangelist say, “He came, if haply He might find fruit thereon.”” — editor's note: Mark xi. 13. [The passage is freely cited; “of figs” is applied here and below by the translator.—R.]
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Hippolytus of Rome
“Wherefore, he says, He cursed the fig-tree, because He did not find upon it that sweet fruit—the sought-for produce.” — editor's note: Matt. xxi. 19, 20; Mark xi. 13, 14, 20, 21.
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- BedeCatena Aurea on Mark
As the time of His Passion approached, the Lord wished to approach to the place of His Passion, in order to intimate that He underwent death of His own accord: wherefore it is said, “And Jesus entered into Jerusalem,…
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How is it that He was hungry in the morning, as Matthew says, if it were not that by an economy He permitted it to His flesh? There follows, “And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, He came, if haply He might…
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Wishing to shew His disciples that if He chose He could in a moment exterminate those who were about to crucify Him. In a mystical sense, however, the Lord entered into the temple, but came out of it again, to shew…
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Farther, He looks round about upon the hearts of all, and when in those who opposed the truth, He found no place to lay His head, He retires to the faithful, and takes up His abode with those who obey Him. For…
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He went in the morning to the Jews, and visits us in the eventide of the world.
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Just in the same way as He speaks parables, so also His deeds are parables; therefore He comes hungry to seek fruit off the fig tree, and though He knew the time of figs was not yet, He condemns it to perpetual…
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We may also say, in another sense, that the Lord sought for fruit on the fig tree before its time, and not finding it, cursed it, because all who fulfil the commandments of the Law, are said to bear fruit in their…
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV X.11.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.1.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.1.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.1.
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV X.11.
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV X.11.
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV X.11.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.1.
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV X.11.
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV X.11.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.1.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.1.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.1.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.1.