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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Mark 11:12 - 11:12
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Mar 11:12-14. The barren fig tree cursed.
And on the morrow - The Triumphal Entry being on the first day of the week, this following day was Monday.
when they were come from Bethany - “in the morning” (Mat 21:18).
he was hungry - How was that? Had he stolen forth from that dear roof at Bethany to the “mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God?” (Luk 6:12); or, “in the morning,” as on a former occasion, “risen up a great while before day, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed” (Mar 1:35); not breaking His fast thereafter, but bending His steps straight for the city, that He might “work the works of Him that sent Him while it was day?” (Joh 9:4). We know not, though one lingers upon and loves to trace out the every movement of that life of wonders. One thing, however we are sure of - it was real bodily hunger which He now sought to allay by the fruit of this fig tree, “if haply He might find any thing thereon”; not a mere scene for the purpose of teaching a lesson, as some early heretics maintained, and some still seem virtually to hold.