This week’s question: What explains Jesus’ impatience with the fig tree? A parable on leadership The Rev. Joe Nassal, priest at Precious Blood Center in Liberty, Mo.: The context provides a clue.

In Luke 13, Jesus tells a parable about a barren fig tree. The tree is planted in a vineyard, which sounds weird, but fig trees were often used as trellises in vineyards. The owner is unhappy because ...

So scholars suggest that the fig tree serves as a parable. Jesus has inspected the temple and does not like what he sees. When he leaves Bethany early the next morning before breakfast, he is hungry.

The first parable speaks to us of the Fig tree which had leaves but was barren of any fruit. With this image, the Lord is rebuking those around Him who adorned themselves with the greenery of external ...

Just as the fig tree sprouts buds as a sign of Spring, so the events surrounding Jesus’ life and ministry were signaling an urgency to respond to God’s invitation to conversion.

The parable of the fig tree, spoken before Christ's visit to Jerusalem, also had a direct connection with the lesson He taught in cursing the fruitless tree. For the barren tree of the parable the ...

Scholars suggest that the fig tree serves as a parable. Jesus has inspected the temple and does not like what he sees. When he leaves Bethany early the next morning before breakfast, he is hungry.

So scholars suggest that the fig tree serves as a parable. Jesus has inspected the temple and does not like what he sees. When he leaves Bethany early the next morning before breakfast, he is hungry.