Sentences with phrase «barren fig tree»

The incident concerning the barren fig tree (Mark 11: 12 - 14) may portray this expectation of an imminent end even more vividly, if Jeremias is correct in suspecting an Aramaic imperfect with an originally future significance behind the Greek text.

Since exegesis involves putting the text into the speech of the exegete, the message character of exegesis does not just appear later in the sermon but is intrinsic to the very nature of exegesis.6 Therefore, the exegete who denies interest in preaching may simply be wishing to distinguish himself from a body of unscholarly clerics, but if his disinterest is fundamental to his methodology, then his exegesis is a barren fig tree.

Remember when Jesus goes to Jerusalem near the end of His ministry, and near Jerusalem, finds a barren fig tree, and curses it?

It is probable that originally the story of the tree was a parable in which Jesus compared Israel to a barren fig tree, and in the process of transmission it became transformed from a parable to a narrative of an actual event.

And in fact, we know from the accounts in Matthew and Mark that the very next day, He illustrates this by cursing the barren fig tree.

Not exact matches

In thy liberty thou mayest make as barren as the fig - tree any of the works which we have undertaken to thy glory.