The Lesson of the Withered Fig Tree^(A)

^20 (B)Now in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.

⁶ If anyone does not abide in Me, ^(A)he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

¹⁴ In response Jesus said to it, “Let no one eat fruit from you ever again.”

And His disciples heard it.

¹³ But He answered and said, ^(A)“Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

^19 (A)And seeing a fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it but leaves, and said to it, “Let no fruit grow on you ever again.” Immediately the fig tree withered away.

The Lesson of the Withered Fig Tree^(B)

^20 (C)And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither away so soon?”

²¹ So Jesus answered and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you, ^(D)if you have faith and ^(E)do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, ^(F)but also if you say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ it will be done. ²² And ^(G)whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

⁶ But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away.

Apostates Depraved and Doomed

¹² These are ^[a]spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried ^[b]about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots;

^8 (A)but if it bears thorns and briers, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned.