matthew-21:21

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 21:21

‘And Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly I say to you, If you have faith, and do not doubt, you will not only do what is done to the fig tree, but even if you shall say to this mountain, ‘Be you taken up and cast into the sea,’ it will be done.” Jesus replies enigmatically. He primarily uses what He has done as an illustration of what true faith can do, and even expands on it. He will leave the deeper lesson to be understood later. So He points out that nothing is impossible to faith, even... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 21:18-22

Matthew 21:18-Song of Solomon : . The Cursing of the Fig Tree and the Power of Faith ( Mark 11:12 ff., Mark 11:20-Ezekiel : *).— What Mk. has severed, Mt. joins together. The miracle is enhanced by happening at once. The special mention of Peter is strangely omitted. In both Gospels the tree is condemned for falsity, not fruitlessness, and symbolises Jerusalem rather than the nation. Besides Luke 13:6-1 Samuel : * cf. Hosea 9:10. The lesson Jesus points is the efficacy of believing prayer.... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 21:17-22

Luke hath nothing of this passage, but Mark relates it with some variation and additions: the variation is only as to time, as to which the evangelists were not curious. Matthew relates this miracle as done in the morning of the second day, as Christ and his disciples returned from Bethany; so doth Mark 11:12; but Matthew speaks as if the disciples discerned it presently withered; Mark mentions it as not discerned to be withered till the next morning, Mark 11:20. Mark saith, Mark 11:13, for the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 21:18-22

CRITICAL NOTESMatthew 21:18. He hungered.—His hungering is pretty good evidence that He had not been staying in the house of Martha and Mary. Most likely He had been much with Himself and with His Father, wrapped up in meditation, rapt up in supplication (Morison).Matthew 21:19. A fig tree.—Rather, a single fig tree.—In the way.—By the way-side (R.V.). It was often planted by the way-sides, because the dust of the road was an absorbing counteraction to the strong flow of the sap—so hindering a... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Matthew 21:18-22

DISCOURSE: 1386THE FIG-TREE CURSEDMatthew 21:18-22. Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. And when he saw a fig-tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig-tree withered away. And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig-tree withered away! Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Matthew 21:1-46

Chapter 21Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, they were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, and then Jesus sent two disciples, saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and immediately you're going to find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me. And if any men say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord has need of them; and immediately he will sent them. Now all of this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet,... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 21:1-46

Matthew 21:1 . When they were come to Bethphage. The rabbins dispute about the etymon of this village, whether it mean the “house of the fountain,” as is the literal import; or the “house of grossities,” or of flatterers. It was distant from Jerusalem a sabbath-day’s journey, that is one thousand nine hundred paces, and situate at the foot of mount Olivet. Mark and Luke join the two villages of Bethphage and Bethany together, for the road lay in the valley between the towns. Here the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Matthew 21:17-21

Matthew 21:17-21And when he saw a fig-tree in the way, He came to it, and found nothing thereon.The barren fig-treeI. The destruction of this tree was not an act of injustice. People find it difficult to understand the propriety of punishing an inanimate object for defects which are only possible in higher existences. They argue that, since the fig-tree did not possess freewill, but was simply obeying the law of its kind, our Lord’s act was capricious. But observe-1. The supposed force of this... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 21:21

21 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. Ver. 21. If ye have faith and doubt not ] Or dispute not the matter as probable only and somewhat uncertain, but not altogether undoubted. a He that doubteth debateth it, as it were, with himself, puts the case to and fro, sometimes... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Matthew 21:21

If ye have: Matthew 17:20, Mark 11:22, Mark 11:23, Luke 17:6, Luke 17:7, Romans 4:19, Romans 4:20, 1 Corinthians 13:2, James 1:6 Be thou removed: Matthew 8:12 Reciprocal: Numbers 20:8 - speak Joshua 10:14 - the Lord Job 9:5 - removeth Psalms 46:2 - mountains Ezekiel 37:4 - Prophesy Zechariah 4:7 - O great Matthew 5:18 - verily Matthew 14:29 - he walked Mark 9:23 - If Luke 12:57 - General John 14:12 - the Acts 3:16 - through 1 Corinthians 12:9 - faith 1 Timothy 2:8 - and Hebrews 10:22 - in... read more