and seeing a fig-tree at a distance, with leaves, He went to see if He might find any thing upon it; and when He came to it, He found nothing but leaves; (for the time of gathering figs was not yet come:) And Jesus spake and said unto it,

And in the morning, as they were passing by it, they saw the fig-tree withered from the roots.

And Peter remembring the tree, saith unto Him, Master, behold, the fig-tree which thou cursedst, is withered.

Now learn a parable from the fig-tree: when it's branch is tender and bringeth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh;