FiGGPlumBGone

FiGGPlumBGone

The figtTtree of Jesus.

Was it not unreasonable to curse the tree for being fruitless when, as Mark expressly says, "it was not the season for figs"? The problem is most satisfactorily cleared up in a discussion called "The Barren Fig Tree" published many years ago by W. M. Christie, a Church of Scotland minister in Palestine under the British mandatory regime. He pointed out first the time of year at which the incident is said to have occurred (if, as is probable, Jesus was crucified on April 6th, A.D. 30, the incident occurred during the first days of April). "Now," wrote Christie, "the facts connected with the fig tree are these. Toward the end of March the leaves begin to appear, and in about a week the foliage coating is complete. Coincident with [this], and sometimes even before, there appears quite a crop of small knobs, not the real figs, but a kind of early forerunner. They grown to the size of green almonds, in which condition they are eaten by peasants and others when hungry. When they come to their own indefinite maturity they drop off." These precursors of the true fig are called taqsh  in Palestinian Arabic. Their appearance is a harbinger of the fully formed appearance of the true fig some six weeks later. So, as Mark says, the time for figs had not yet come. But if the leaves appear without any taqsh,  that is a sign that there will be no figs. Since Jesus found "nothing but leaves" - leaves without any taqsh- he knew that "it was an absolutely hopeless, fruitless fig tree" and said as much. CharlaX adds the real reasone that Jesus did this was so he would not confuse this world with the next. The Earth is not his home but Heaven come. There is this Plumb tree in the Landscaping. When i looked for plums they were Green there was none there ripe and now they are just gone. They cast the Plumbs just like the Figg Tree did for Jesus. The veritable few that changed color from red to brown are rotten now. This is FiggPlumBGone. This may prove to some I am still a Christian I just refused to eat the landscaping fruit seems so plumb wrong to me to eat Green Fruit.