Seeing at a distance a fig tree in leaf, He went to see if He would find anything on it. But He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

But learn the parable from the fig-tree: when its branch already becomes tender and puts forth the leaves, ye know that the summer is near.

Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If a man's brother dies, and leaves behind a wife, and leaves no child, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.

And many of the people spread their coats in the road, while others scattered layers of leaves cut from the fields.

It will be like a man who leaves his home and goes on a journey, after he has given orders to his slaves, to each his particular task, and has given orders to the watchman to keep watch.

Then Peter remembered [what Jesus had done to the fig tree on a recent occasion], and said to Him, "Rabbi [i.e., Teacher], look, the fig tree you cursed [the other day] has withered up."

And when they were going by in the morning, they saw the fig-tree dead from the roots.

So He spoke to it and said, "Never again may anyone eat a fig from you!" And His disciples were listening to it.

The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.