Jesus curses Fig Tree


	FIG TREE CURSED
264	Matt 21	259	Mark 11	Luke
18	In the morning,	12	On the following day,
	as he was returning to the city,		when they came from Bethany,
	he was hungry.		he was hungry.
19	And seeing	13	And seeing in the distance
	a fig tree by the wayside he went to it,		a fig tree in leaf,
	he went to it,		he went [to see]
			if he could find anything on it.
			When he came to it,
	and found nothing on it but leaves only.		he found nothing but leaves,
			for it was not the season for figs.
	And he <says> to it,	14	And he said to it,
	"May no fruit ever come from you again!"*		"May no one ever eat fruit from you again."*
	And the fig tree withered at once.		And
			his disciples heard it.

Color Code
Teal	Two texts use same vocabulary.
Black	Words unique to a particular text.
	No parallel elements in this gospel.
*	Same wording, different order
<says>	RSV wording revised to reflect Greek.
[see]	Word in RSV but not Greek text.
259	Sequence in synoptic outlines

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