Mark 11:12

A Barren Fig Tree Cursed

12 And on the next day [as] they were departing from Bethany, he was hungry.

Mark 11:12 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 11:12

And on the morrow
The next day early in the morning,

when they were come from Bethany;
Christ, and his twelve disciples. The Syriac and Persic versions read, "when he came out of Bethany"; though not alone, but with the twelve disciples, who went with him there, and returned with him, as appears from ( Mark 11:14 ) , as he and they came out of that place early in the morning, having ate nothing, before they came from thence,

he was hungry; (See Gill on Matthew 21:18).

Mark 11:12 In-Context

10 Blessed [is] the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest [heaven]!"

11 And he went into Jerusalem to the temple, and [after] looking around at everything, [because] the hour was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

12 And on the next day [as] they were departing from Bethany, he was hungry.

13 And [when he] saw from a distance a fig tree that had leaves, he went [to see] if perhaps he would find anything on it. And [when he] came up to it he found nothing except leaves, because it was not the season for figs.

14 And he responded [and] said to it, "Let no one eat fruit from you any more {forever}!" And his disciples heard [it].

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here "[as]" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("were departing")