Sentences with phrase «of fig trees»

The scent of fig trees and the inviting Aegean dance on the breeze.

Just outside town is access to the famous Swartberg Pass whilst in town are lei water channels, gardens full of fig trees, Cape Dutch architecture and a mix of Karoo and Victorian buildings restored and functioning as restaurants, guest houses and little shops.

My grandpa has fields of fig trees back in Croatia but here in Finland, it's so hard to get any and when they do arrive here, the season of being able to find them at stores and eat them fresh is so short.

The other week, at a party, I met the lucky owners of a couple of fig trees in town and got an invitation to come pick some fresh figs.

Still other material was found and used by Mark, including some that is clearly legendary — that is, «popular» stories handed down orally in extended form, and not necessarily all of them really Christian in origin — for example the great legends of the Gerasene demoniac, 5:1 - 20; the death of John the Baptizer, 6:17 - 29; the walking on the sea, 6:45 - 52; and the cursing of the fig tree, 11:12 - 14, 20 - 25.

Our Lord declared in Matthew 24:32 - 35: «Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

Some have a moral purpose (as the parting of the sea for the deliverance of the Israelites), while others have none (the withering of the fig tree cursed by Jesus).

But, then again, it is written that they are a bunch of walking spiritual dead, dry bones in this last generation of the Fig tree.

He only wishes to be rid of the fig tree because it is taking room where fruitful life could grow.

That the fall of a nation is on the same level as the withering of a fig tree — functioning merely as a sign of the divine intentions — makes arbitrary the social quality of human life.

A fig leaf is a leaf of the fig tree.

The miracle of the fig tree is unique.

This would fit with the lesson of the fig tree, which stresses the short span of time in which these things will occur.»

Augustine reports that when he was in extremis, sobbing at the foot of that fig tree, he heard a voice say, «Take it and read.»

Doc, 32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

In fact, Jesus says in Matthew that the generation which sees the budding of the fig tree will see the end.

The discovery of a coin in the mouth of a fish and the withering of the fig tree are quite incredible tales.

Also, it finally answers the question of the disciples which provides the narrative setting for the discourse: 13.3 f. Most probably the discourse at one time had a form: Mark 13.3 - 27, 30, before the addition of further sayings and the insertion of the parable of the Fig Tree.

Professor Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement, advocated the importance of the Fig Tree's presence on the entire ecosystem and the people who depend on the soil and water to live.

The hotel's prime position directly on the Blue Flag beach of Fig Tree Bay allows easy exploration of the local area: the hotel is 1 km away from the sandy Flamingo beach, and 75m from lively bars, restaurants and shops.

The Capo Bay Hotel overlooks the deep turquoise waters of Fig Tree Bay, where you can spend your stay relaxing by a choice of two outdoor pools or an indoor pool (adult - only).

Just down the road is Protaras where you will find the fantastic beach of Fig Tree Bay and a choice of beachfront hotels.

Professor Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement, advocated the importance of the Fig Tree's presence on the entire ecosystem and the people who depend on the soil and water to live.

I took a shot of my fig tree at dusk, and while the background leaves look a little fuzzy, the ripening figs look sharp, and you get a nice contrast of colors between the purplish ones and the still - green fruit.

Not exact matches

He pointed to where a glass roof panel will be removed and a 45 - foot fig tree will be lifted by crane into one of the spheres, one of 40 to 50 trees that will be installed.

As part of its service, Happy Host arranges professional photography, and the loft, a former hat factory with Eamesian kitchen stools and a fig tree by the window, stood ready for an appraising gaze.

A year into the project, the weedy field has a compost heap full of organic waste from the kitchen; a growing orchard with biblical fruit trees including a fig and an apple; a Havdalah circle where visitors and residents of the farm gather weekly for a religious ceremony marking the end of Shabbat; and a shmitta area — a part of the land that is allowed to lie fallow for one year out of every seven, as commanded in the Torah.

As a result they will be able to «actually sit, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, and there will be no one making them tremble; for the very mouth of Jehovah of armies has spoken it.»

Like the cursed fig tree withered from leaf to root in Mark's passion narrative, the infertility that plagues Atwood's dystopia is a prophetic sign of the withering of a whole culture.

This parable follows on the heels of Jesus» triumphant entry into Jerusalem, and the moments when he cast the moneychangers from the temple, cursed the fig tree and asked the religious officials if they had accepted John and the baptism he brought.

Why did he get mad at a fig tree for not having figs on it out of season?

I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind.

God Jr. has many spiffy adventures, like getting angry at a fig tree and killing it, and telling his followers to do a bunch of things they are supposed to do like be nice.

6:12 Then I looked when the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and a huge earthquake took place; the sun became as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon became blood red; 6:13 and the stars in the sky fell to the earth like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when shaken by a fierce wind.

Thereafter they will sit by their vines and under their fig trees fearful of no one.1

May the children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants, while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.8

You plucked this out of the middle of the explanation of why the fig tree withered.

nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more; but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.

He is going to find a fig tree of unripe fruit.

Joel 2:30,31 «And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and a great earthquake occurred; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the entire moon became as blood, and the stars of heaven fell to the earth as when a fig tree shaken by a high wind drops its unripe figs.»

But he also used pictures that were of his time and place, such as festival shelters, fig trees, banquet etiquette, and a mugging on a notoriously dangerous local road.

There is a sense of joy in his proclamation, he speaks of a wedding, of new wine, the fig tree that comes back to life.

Both wandered to a fig tree at the conclusion of their fasts.

The fig tree is the nation of Israel and it became a nation again in 1948 so we are in the time frame set forth by God.

Like Jesus cursing a fig tree because it wouldn't bear fruit out of season.

There Jesus stops his own parade to heal a blind man named Bartimaeus, and curses a poor little fig tree for not bearing fruit out of season.

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.

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

Adam and Eve covered up with fig leaves at some point (the fig tree being one of the original species God created).

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