Parable of the budding fig tree

The telling of Jesus of Nazareth parable of the fig tree or the fig tree as Sommerbote has the nearness of the Kingdom on the subject. It is in the Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible by the Gospel according to Luke ( Lk 21.29 to 32 EU), the Gospel according to Mark ( Mk 13.28 to 29 EU) and by the Gospel according to Matthew ( Mt 24:32 - 33 EU) survived.

Content

The parable is embedded in a series of stories about the sign with respect to the coming of the Son of Man and the end of the world. Jesus then describes his disciples the image of a fig tree whose leaves is green discolored once the summer is near. So it was also in the previously described signs: When they saw this, they would know that the kingdom of God is near.

Interpretation

For Karl layer of the fig tree is a picture of the people of Israel, because connect to the parable in all evangelists, the addition that " this generation will not pass away", leaving only the seed of the Jews, that Israel could be meant.

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