Blaine Rogers @Mark 11:12-14; 20-21 Day 3 Because the fig tree was barren when it promised fruit, the Lord Jesus pronounced a curse upon it. He declared that it was to be fruitless forever. Some people read this and reached the conclusion that Jesus operated in rash anger. The phrase at the end of verse 13, “for the time of figs was not yet come,” leads them to conclude that Jesus was expecting something from the tree that the tree could not do. However, if there were leaves on the tree, there should also have been fruit. Jesus cursed the tree for its hypocrisy. The tree was making promises it could not deliver! Israel was doing the same thing; claiming to know God and making Him known and yet they were rejecting Him. How are we like that? How are you like that? (That one is harder isn’t it?)