The Gospel according to Mark records two things Jesus did on Monday of the last week of his earthly life: He cursed and dried up the fig tree, and he purged the Temple.
He got in a lot of trouble for what he did in the Temple.
He would be in trouble, nowadays, for what he did to the fig tree.
—Patrick Henry Reardon
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Everything You Need to Know About Morality & the Bible by David Mills
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on the Brevity & Theology of Her Recorded Words by Judith Anderson
24.3—May/June 2011
The Making & Endurance of the King James Bible, 1611-2011 by Barton Swaim
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