Jesus, having come out from Bethany, was hungry. Seeing from afar a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if there was something on it, but there was nothing on the tree but leaves. The Scripture records together with this, “For it was not the season for figs” (Mark 11:13). It was not that the Lord made a wasted trip because He did not know the season for bearing fruit; He went because He had something to teach through that tree with nothing but abundant leaves. That He sought fruit even though it was not the season means that the Lord requires of us not a life lived according to the natural order, but a life lived by faith in God. Therefore we must examine, together with the events that follow, what the word He spoke before the fruitless tree reveals. What the disciples heard was the Lord’s word that no one would ever again eat fruit from that tree.
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