Fig Tree Cursed and Temple Cleansed (Part II)
Fri, Mar 15
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How come Jesus curses the fig tree if it wasn't the season of the figs?


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Mar 15, 2024, 6:00 PM GMT+2
Zoom - 11:00 AM - ET
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About the event
Mark 11: 13- 14,
13 Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. 14 Then he said to the tree, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again." And his disciples heard him say it.
In this true Bible story, has in it an Aramaic/ Hebraic idiom, that most of the churches, evangelists, writers and even scholars are not quite clear about it, and easily misunderstand the point. So how come Jesus curses the fig tree if it wasn't the season of the figs? Jesus cursed the tree because he did not find the early figs as it was not the season of the ripe figs yet. In most translations there is only one word for figs but in Aramaic/ Hebraic there…