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[–] torknorggren@lemm.ee 40 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Seriously though, why did Jesus curse that fig tree? He could be weirdly petty.

BTW, myrrh had lots of uses besides embalming.

[–] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I always understood it to be that things exist to be fruitful and multiply. In a sense, a person who does not love, who doesn’t multiply goodness in the world as Jesus modeled, was like the fig tree. Such things could be thought of as cursed, withered and twisted versions of what they could and should be.

I am not a Bible scholar though lol.

[–] d20bard@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty much, only detail missing is that it was the season for fruit. So, there is an added sense that by all natural laws the tree should have had fruit and it's lack was a particular aberration to a societythat used the fig so much.

Also, thematically, it rounds out God's domains. Up to this point, there had been miracles showing dominion over weather, matter, human life, animal life, spirits, disease and now there's plant life.

[–] Kelsenellenelvial@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except that the gospel of Mark specifically states that it wasn’t fig season. Why did Jesus even look for the figs when he should have known they were out of season. Why then curse the tree when it was just doing what fig trees are supposed to do? Guess Jesus can be an ass when he’s hangry.

[–] Rootiest@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Dammit Jim!

I'm a carpenter not a fig farmer!

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