Bible Verses about โfig treesโ
The Bible contains 31 verses about fig trees across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โOut of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.โ
โ"Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near.โ
โThe eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.โ
โNathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!"โ
โJesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"โ
โNathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."โ
โJesus answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these!"โ
โHe said to him, "Most certainly, I tell you, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."โ
โDoes a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?โ
โCan a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.โ
โ"Now from the fig tree, learn this parable. When the branch has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near;โ
โJesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don't doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it would be done.โ
โWhen they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near.โ
โEven so you also, when you see these things happening, know that the Kingdom of God is near.โ
โHe told them a parable. "See the fig tree, and all the trees.โ
โThe stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind.โ
โYahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer's feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.โ
โ"But the fig tree said to them, 'Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?'โ
โHe spoke this parable. "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.โ
โHe said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?'โ
โHe answered, 'Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it, and fertilize it.โ
โIf it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.'"โ
โFor though the fig tree doesn't flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:โ
โyet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!โ
โThe next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry.โ
โSeeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.โ
โJesus told it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" and his disciples heard it.โ
โThey gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins. when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.โ
โSeeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away.โ
โWhen the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree immediately wither away?"โ
โOne basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.โ
