{"id":115279,"date":"2026-09-13T00:06:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T04:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bgodinspired.com\/?p=115279"},"modified":"2026-09-13T00:06:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T04:06:56","slug":"why-did-jesus-curse-the-fig-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bgodinspired.com\/index.php\/what-jesus-teaches\/why-did-jesus-curse-the-fig-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Jesus Curse the Fig Tree? Read to Verse 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'>\n                <div class=\"twp-read-time\">\n                \t<i class=\"booster-icon twp-clock\"><\/i> <span>Read Time:<\/span>14 Minute, 41 Second                <\/div>\n\n            <\/div><p>It is one of those stories people quietly skip. Jesus is hungry. He walks up to a fig tree. There is no fruit on it. And he curses it.<\/p>\n\n<p>Then Mark adds a line that seems to make it worse: &#8220;for the time of figs was not yet.&#8221; It wasn&#8217;t even fig season.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you have ever read that and thought, &#8220;That doesn&#8217;t seem fair,&#8221; you are not being disrespectful. You are reading carefully. People have asked why did Jesus curse the fig tree for a very long time, skeptics out loud and believers usually in a whisper.<\/p>\n\n<p>Here is the good news. Mark saw the problem too. He is the one who wrote that line down. And he left clues about why, right there in the same chapter, if you keep reading all the way to verse 25.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Why Did Jesus Curse the Fig Tree? Start With What Mark Actually Wrote<\/h2>\n\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.&#8221; (Mark 11:12-14, KJV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Look at who says &#8220;the time of figs was not yet.&#8221; Not Jesus. Not the disciples. The writer says it, as the narrator, speaking straight to you.<\/p>\n\n<p>Writers don&#8217;t usually point out the weak spot in their own story by accident. When Mark stops to tell you the tree was out of season, he is waving a flag: this is not really about breakfast.<\/p>\n\n<p>There is another reason to slow down. Almost every miracle Jesus did made something whole. Blind eyes opened. A withered hand stretched out. This one goes the other way. When a story breaks its own pattern like that, it is asking you to look closer.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you want to read this whole last week of Jesus&#8217;s life in one go, the Book of Matthew is free as an immersive PDF and a 28-chapter audiobook. Matthew tells the fig tree story in chapter 21, and you could listen to it on your next walk.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"convertkit-form wp-block-convertkit-form\" style=\"\"><script async data-uid=\"884942602c\" src=\"https:\/\/bgodinspired.kit.com\/884942602c\/index.js\" data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" data-no-defer=\"1\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" nowprocket><\/script><\/div>\n\n\n<h2>The Story Mark Wraps Around the Temple<\/h2>\n\n<p>Mark doesn&#8217;t tell the fig tree story in one piece. He splits it in two and puts something in the middle, like a sandwich:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mark 11:12-14:<\/strong> On the way into Jerusalem, Jesus finds a tree covered in leaves with nothing on it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mark 11:15-19:<\/strong> He walks into the temple and overturns the tables.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mark 11:20-21:<\/strong> The next morning, the disciples pass the same tree. It is &#8220;dried up from the roots.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>The fig tree is the bread. The temple is the filling. Mark wants you to read each one through the other.<\/p>\n\n<p>A tree full of leaves looks healthy from far away. That is exactly how Mark describes it: Jesus saw it &#8220;afar off having leaves.&#8221; Up close, there was nothing.<\/p>\n\n<p>Then Jesus walks into a temple that was busy, crowded and impressive, and says: &#8220;Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves&#8221; (Mark 11:17, KJV).<\/p>\n\n<p>A showy tree with no fruit. A busy temple with no room to pray. The same problem, told twice.<\/p>\n\n<p>We looked at what was happening at those tables, and who was being pushed out, in <a href=\"https:\/\/bgodinspired.com\/index.php\/bible-resources\/bible-stories\/why-did-jesus-flip-the-tables\/\">Why Did Jesus Flip the Tables? Look Who Was Crowded Out<\/a>. Here, the question is the tree.<\/p>\n\n<h2>The Fig Tree Hiding a Few Verses Away in Jeremiah<\/h2>\n\n<p>When Jesus called the temple a &#8220;den of thieves,&#8221; he was borrowing from the prophet Jeremiah: &#8220;Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes?&#8221; (Jeremiah 7:11, KJV).<\/p>\n\n<p>Now keep reading Jeremiah. A short way further on, the same prophet gives God&#8217;s warning about the people like this:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade&#8221; (Jeremiah 8:13, KJV).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>No figs on the fig tree. Only leaves, and even those fading. Just a few dozen verses after &#8220;den of robbers.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>Mark never tells us Jesus had Jeremiah 8 in mind, so we can&#8217;t say that for certain. But anyone listening who knew Jeremiah well had both pictures sitting close together in the same prophet&#8217;s words: a temple turned into a hideout, and a fig tree with nothing on it.<\/p>\n\n<p>The prophets did this sort of thing often. They didn&#8217;t only preach. They acted the message out. God told Jeremiah to smash a clay jar in front of the city&#8217;s leaders and say, &#8220;Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter&#8217;s vessel&#8221; (Jeremiah 19:11, KJV).<\/p>\n\n<p>Nobody thinks the jar was being punished. The jar was the message. So was the fig tree.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Was It Unfair to Curse a Tree Out of Season?<\/h2>\n\n<p>You will often read an explanation based on how fig trees grow. It goes like this: in spring, fig trees in that region put out small, hard early figs around the same time as their leaves. So a tree full of leaves with no little figs at all was a tree that was not going to bear anything that year.<\/p>\n\n<p>That may be right. The Bible does mention early figs: &#8220;The fig tree putteth forth her green figs&#8221; (Song of Solomon 2:13, KJV). But it is a proposal, not a settled fact. People have argued about this verse for centuries, and old Bible encyclopedias list several competing explanations side by side (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcyclopedia.com\/F\/fig-tree-cursed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here is one 19th-century example<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n<p>And notice what the early-figs answer can&#8217;t explain. If the whole point were &#8220;there really should have been fruit,&#8221; Mark wouldn&#8217;t need to tell you it wasn&#8217;t fig season. He would just leave that line out. He put it in.<\/p>\n\n<p>So the most honest reading is this: Mark wants you to feel that the tree is a sign. Jesus wasn&#8217;t losing his temper over an empty stomach. He was acting out, in one small tree, what he was about to say out loud in the temple.<\/p>\n\n<p>A little later that same week, as they left the temple, one of the disciples pointed out its huge stones. Jesus answered: &#8220;there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down&#8221; (Mark 13:2, KJV). In AD 70, Roman armies destroyed that temple.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Matthew Tells It Differently, and That&#8217;s Worth Saying Out Loud<\/h2>\n\n<p>If you read Matthew&#8217;s version, two things are not the same.<\/p>\n\n<p>In Matthew, Jesus clears the temple first (Matthew 21:12-13) and finds the fig tree the next morning. And the tree doesn&#8217;t wait a day. It withers on the spot: &#8220;And presently the fig tree withered away&#8221; (Matthew 21:19, KJV). In old English, &#8220;presently&#8221; means right away.<\/p>\n\n<p>In Mark, the tree comes before the temple, and the disciples only see it withered the following morning.<\/p>\n\n<p>Christians have explained this in different ways. Many readers think Matthew pulled the two mornings together so he could tell the fig tree story in one piece, while Mark kept them apart to wrap them around the temple. What is clear is that nobody hid the difference. It sits right there for anyone to compare.<\/p>\n\n<p>And both writers agree on what matters most: a tree with leaves and no fruit, a temple that had lost its purpose, and what Jesus said next.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Keep Reading: Jesus Ends the Fig Tree Lesson With &#8220;Forgive&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n<p>Here is the part almost everyone misses, because they stop reading at the dead tree.<\/p>\n\n<p>The next morning, Peter points at it: &#8220;Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away&#8221; (Mark 11:21, KJV). You might expect Jesus to say something about judgment. He doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n<p>He says, &#8220;Have faith in God&#8221; (Mark 11:22, KJV). Then he talks about prayer. And then he finishes here:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.&#8221; (Mark 11:25, KJV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Think about where that lands. The temple was meant to be a house of prayer, and it had become a place of show. The tree had leaves and no fruit. And standing beside that dead tree, Jesus tells his friends what real fruit looks like: trusting God, praying, and forgiving people.<\/p>\n\n<p>Not a bigger building. Not more leaves. A person praying and letting go of a grudge.<\/p>\n\n<p>Mark&#8217;s word for &#8220;forgive&#8221; comes from the same Greek family as <em>aphesis<\/em>, a word built around the idea of release, of letting something go. We explored it in <a href=\"https:\/\/bgodinspired.com\/index.php\/articles\/greek-word-for-forgiveness\/\">Greek Word for Forgiveness: What Does &#8216;Aphesis&#8217; Really Mean?<\/a><\/p>\n\n<h2>Luke Has No Curse. Luke Has a Gardener.<\/h2>\n\n<p>Luke&#8217;s Gospel doesn&#8217;t tell the story of Jesus cursing a fig tree at all. Instead, just before Jesus goes into the temple, Luke tells us that as he came near Jerusalem, &#8220;he beheld the city, and wept over it&#8221; (Luke 19:41, KJV).<\/p>\n\n<p>And earlier in Luke, Jesus tells a story with the very same picture in it:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.&#8221; (Luke 13:6-9, KJV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Same kind of tree. Same problem. No fruit. But listen to the gardener: &#8220;let it alone this year also.&#8221; He doesn&#8217;t just ask for more time. He promises to do the work himself. He will dig around the roots and feed the soil.<\/p>\n\n<p>Luke doesn&#8217;t make the warning soft. Just before this story, Jesus says plainly, &#8220;except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish&#8221; (Luke 13:3, KJV). The gardener himself says the tree can be cut down if nothing changes.<\/p>\n\n<p>But the story stops before anyone picks up an axe. We never learn what happened to the tree. Jesus leaves the year open.<\/p>\n\n<h2>What the Fig Tree Means for You Today<\/h2>\n\n<p>So why did Jesus curse the fig tree? Not because he was hungry and annoyed. He was acting out, in one small tree, a picture of a religious system that looked alive from far away but had stopped making room for prayer. And then, standing beside it, he taught his friends what fruit really is.<\/p>\n\n<p>Put Mark and Luke side by side, and something opens up.<\/p>\n\n<p>Mark shows you a tree that would not change. Luke shows you a gardener asking for one more year. Both are true. But if you are the kind of person who reads the fig tree story and quietly wonders, &#8220;Is that me? Am I all leaves?&#8221;, that worry is itself a sign of life. A dead tree doesn&#8217;t lie awake wondering whether it is bearing fruit.<\/p>\n\n<p>Notice who does the digging in Luke&#8217;s story. Not the tree. The gardener. The tree&#8217;s job is to stay planted and let the work happen around its roots.<\/p>\n\n<p>And notice what Mark says fruit looks like. It isn&#8217;t looking impressive. It isn&#8217;t being busy. It is trust. It is honest prayer. It is forgiving the person you have been holding something against. That is fruit anyone can grow, with no money, no title and no audience.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p><strong>The fig tree story doesn&#8217;t end with a curse. It ends with &#8220;forgive.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<h2>Actions to Take Today<\/h2>\n\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Read the whole passage in one sitting.<\/strong> Open Mark 11:12-25. It takes about five minutes. Don&#8217;t stop at the withered tree. Read all the way to verse 25 and notice where Jesus lands.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Name one leaf.<\/strong> Open the notes app on your phone and write down one thing you do mostly so people will think you are doing fine. Next to it, write one small, real thing you could do instead today: a message to someone who is struggling, five quiet minutes of honest prayer, or sharing a meal.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Forgive before you pray.<\/strong> Before your next prayer, bring one name to mind, someone you are holding something against, and say, &#8220;God, I am letting this go.&#8221; If you are not sure you are ready, the free <a href=\"https:\/\/bgodinspired.com\/index.php\/am-i-ready-to-forgive\/\">Am I Ready to Forgive?<\/a> quiz can help you see honestly where you are.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<h2>Journaling Prompts<\/h2>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Where in your life do you look healthier from a distance than you feel up close?<\/li>\n<li>If a gardener asked for &#8220;one more year&#8221; for you, what would you most want that year to grow?<\/li>\n<li>Whose name comes to mind when you read &#8220;forgive, if ye have ought against any&#8221;? What makes letting go of that one so hard?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2>A Prayer<\/h2>\n\n<p><em>Jesus, I&#8217;ll be honest: this story has scared me, and some days I wonder if I am all leaves and no fruit. Thank you for being the gardener who asks for one more year, and for doing the digging I could never do on my own. Show me what real fruit looks like in my life: trusting you, praying honestly, and finally letting go of the grudge I keep picking back up. Help me stay planted today. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<h2>Let&#8217;s Talk<\/h2>\n\n<p>Why do you think Mark included the words &#8220;for the time of figs was not yet,&#8221; when they make the story harder to understand at first? Share your thoughts in the comments. I would love to hear how you read it.<\/p>\n\n<p>If this story has you wanting to read the rest of that week, from the fig tree to the empty tomb, the whole Book of Matthew is yours free as a PDF and a full audiobook.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"convertkit-form wp-block-convertkit-form\" style=\"\"><script async data-uid=\"884942602c\" src=\"https:\/\/bgodinspired.kit.com\/884942602c\/index.js\" data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" data-no-defer=\"1\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" nowprocket><\/script><\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Share This<\/h2>\n\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I always stopped reading the fig tree story at the withered tree. Keep going to Mark 11:25. Jesus ends it with &#8216;forgive.'&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Mark wrote &#8216;the time of figs was not yet&#8217; himself. He wanted me to notice the fig tree wasn&#8217;t about breakfast. It was about a temple full of leaves and empty of prayer.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Luke has no curse. Luke has a gardener who says, &#8216;let it alone this year also.&#8217; Some days I need that story more than any other.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2>Questions People Ask About the Fig Tree<\/h2>\n\n<h3>Why did Jesus curse the fig tree?<\/h3>\n<p>In Mark 11:12-14, Jesus finds a fig tree covered in leaves but with no fruit and says, &#8220;No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever.&#8221; Mark places this story on either side of Jesus clearing the Jerusalem temple (Mark 11:15-19), so the two scenes explain each other: a tree that looked healthy but bore no fruit, and a busy temple that had stopped being a house of prayer. Many Christians read the cursing as an acted-out prophetic sign, like the Old Testament prophets used, rather than an angry reaction to hunger.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Why did Jesus curse a fig tree when it wasn&#8217;t the season for figs?<\/h3>\n<p>Mark 11:13 says &#8220;the time of figs was not yet,&#8221; and the Gospel writer adds that comment himself. A common explanation is that fig trees in that region put out small early figs alongside their spring leaves, so a leafy tree with none was barren, but that is a proposal rather than a settled fact. Because Mark deliberately notes that it was not fig season, many readers conclude the fig tree was meant as a symbol, pointing to the temple scene Mark wraps around it, rather than a complaint about missing food.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Did the fig tree wither immediately or the next day?<\/h3>\n<p>The Gospels of Matthew and Mark tell the timing differently. Matthew 21:19 says &#8220;presently the fig tree withered away,&#8221; meaning right away, and places the event after Jesus cleared the temple. Mark 11:20-21 says the disciples saw the tree &#8220;dried up from the roots&#8221; the following morning, and places the cursing before the temple clearing. Many readers think Matthew joined the two mornings into one account, while Mark kept them apart to frame the temple story.<\/p>\n\n<h3>What is the parable of the barren fig tree in Luke 13?<\/h3>\n<p>In Luke 13:6-9, Jesus tells a parable about a man who has looked for fruit on his fig tree for three years and orders it cut down. The vineyard worker asks, &#8220;Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it,&#8221; promising to cut it down afterward if it still bears no fruit. The parable follows Jesus&#8217;s warning to repent in Luke 13:3 and ends without saying what happened to the tree. Luke&#8217;s Gospel does not include the story of Jesus cursing a fig tree.<\/p>\n\n<h3>What did Jesus teach after the fig tree withered?<\/h3>\n<p>When Peter pointed out the withered fig tree in Mark 11:21, Jesus answered, &#8220;Have faith in God&#8221; (Mark 11:22), then taught about believing prayer, and finished with Mark 11:25: &#8220;And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.&#8221; The lesson Jesus drew from the fig tree ends with forgiveness, not with judgment.<\/p>        <div class=\"booster-block booster-reactions-block\">\n            <div class=\"twp-reactions-icons\">\n                \n                <div class=\"twp-reacts-wrap\">\n                    <a react-data=\"be-react-1\" post-id=\"115279\" class=\"be-face-icons un-reacted\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" 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