There is quite a lot of debate on the day the Christ cursed the fig tree. However, I figure it doesn't really matter a whole lot what day he cursed it. Really it just matters that it happened, and what we learn from it.
On his way into Jerusalem, sometime during his final week, Christ gets hungry and sees a fig tree along the road with leaves. Now to understand this story you must understand the life of a fig tree. First of all it is not the season for fig trees this early in spring, so there should not have been figs on the tree. However, figs grow before the leaves, and when the leaves come on, the figs should be ripe. So none of the other fig trees had figs, but they also didn't have leaves. So the tree was not cursed for not having figs as much as it was for pretending to be something it was not. Or for being showy, puffed up and prideful. Interesting to compare this to the other parables found in the next few Chapters.
Tuesday and Wednesday Christ spends at the temple teaching. But he isn't just teaching he is being scrutinized and judged by the Pharisees. This too fulfills the Passover traditions. Like mentioned on Palm Sunday the Jews brought the lamb into their home to watch it and make sure it had no faults, to make sure it really was perfect. The Pharisees were there watching THE LAMB scrutinizing him and trying to find Faults in him. Christ's Parables he teaches at this time are direct condemnations of the Pharisees, just like his cursing of the fig tree. (I need to list the parables and references)
Curly, our lamb, brought us a basket of fig newtons for dessert.
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