Fig Trees

Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered. …

Then Jesus told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees. …

The next day, when they had left Bethany, Jesus was hungry. …

Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its branches become tender and sprout leaves, you know that summer is near.

Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls, …

But the fig tree replied, ‘Should I stop giving my sweetness and my good fruit, to hold sway over the trees?’

…and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind.