Mark 11:13

World English Bible (2000)

Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

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  • Luke 13:6-9 : 6 He spoke this parable. "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none. 7 He said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?' 8 He answered, 'Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it, and fertilize it. 9 If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.'"
  • Matt 21:19 : 19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away.
  • Luke 10:31 : 31 By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
  • Luke 12:6-7 : 6 "Aren't five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God. 7 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
  • Ruth 2:3 : 3 She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.
  • 1 Sam 6:9 : 9 Behold; if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it was a chance that happened to us."
  • Isa 5:7 : 7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

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  • 90%

    18 Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.

    19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away.

    20 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree immediately wither away?"

    21 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don't doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it would be done.

  • Luke 13:6-9
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    6 He spoke this parable. "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.

    7 He said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?'

    8 He answered, 'Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it, and fertilize it.

    9 If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.'"

  • 14 Jesus told it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" and his disciples heard it.

  • 83%

    19 When evening came, he went out of the city.

    20 As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots.

    21 Peter, remembering, said to him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away."

    22 Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God.

  • 81%

    11 Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

    12 The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry.

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    29 He told them a parable. "See the fig tree, and all the trees.

    30 When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near.

  • 79%

    28 "Now from the fig tree, learn this parable. When the branch has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near;

    29 even so you also, when you see these things coming to pass, know that it is near, at the doors.

  • 32 "Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near.

  • Judg 9:10-11
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    10 "The trees said to the fig tree, 'Come and reign over us.'

    11 "But the fig tree said to them, 'Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?'

  • Luke 6:43-44
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    72%

    43 For there is no good tree that brings forth rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that brings forth good fruit.

    44 For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don't gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

  • 1 When they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,

  • 48 Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

  • 13 But he answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father didn't plant will be uprooted.

  • Luke 20:9-10
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    9 He began to tell the people this parable. "A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.

    10 At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.

  • 9 Even now the axe also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire."

  • 34 When the season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.

  • 5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.

  • Mark 12:1-2
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    1 He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.

    2 When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.

  • 7 He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.

  • 13 I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh: no grapes shall be on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have given them shall pass away from them.

  • 17 For though the fig tree doesn't flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:

  • Matt 7:16-17
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    16 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

    17 Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

  • 19 Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.

  • 1 When they drew near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

  • 4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

  • 10 "Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

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    18 He said, "What is the Kingdom of God like? To what shall I compare it?

    19 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky lodged in its branches."

  • 6 When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

  • 21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

  • 1 At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.

  • 29 But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the sickle, because the harvest has come."

  • 50 Jesus answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these!"