7 Or, O that thou hadst known.
8 Gr. palisade.
9 Some ancient authorities read the common people.
10 Or, Ye behold.
a Jesus now makes a formal challenge to the Jerusalem leaders who have so long opposed his claims. This was a Day of Triumph that seemed to the excited crowds to mean the establishment of a political Messianic Kingdom.
§ 129. THE BARREN FIG TREE CURSED, AND THE SECONDa CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE. (COMP. § 31)
Bethany and Jerusalem (Monday). A Day of Messianic Power
| Mark 11:12-18 | Matt. 21:18, 19, 12, 13 | Luke 19:45-48 |
| 12 And on the morrow, when they were come out from Bethany, he hungered. 13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find anything thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for it was not the season of figs. 14 And he answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit from thee henceforward for ever. And his disciples heard it. 15 And they come to Jerusalem: and he entered into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and them that bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold the doves; 16 and he would not suffer that any man should carry a vessel through the temple. 17 And he taught, and said unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? but ye have made it a den of robbers. 18 And the chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, for all the multitude was astonished at his teaching. | 18 Now in the morning as he returned to the city, he hungered. 19 And seeing 1a fig tree by the way side, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only; and he saith unto it, Let there be no fruit from thee henceforward for ever. 12 And Jesus entered into the temple 2of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold the doves; 13 and he saith unto them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer: but ye make it a den of robbers. | 45 And he entered into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold, 46 saying unto them, It is written [see Isa. 56:7; Jer. 7:11], And my house shall be a house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of robbers. 47 And he was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people sought to destroy him: 48 and they could not find what they might do; for the people all hung upon him, listening. |
1 Or, a single.