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Matthew 21:19 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" 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. "
Matthew 21:19
Verse in Context
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17 He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and camped there.
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.
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Matthew 21:1
"When they came near to Jerusalem and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,"
Matthew 21:2
"saying to them, “Go into the village that is opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me."
Matthew 21:3
"If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and immediately he will send them.”"
Matthew 21:4
"All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,"
Matthew 21:5
"“Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”"
Matthew 21:6
"The disciples went and did just as Jesus commanded them,"
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