All right, so the first question that came, this actually came to me a couple of weeks ago, and it is based off of Mark 11. And so it's recorded in two of the Gospels, but the question is aimed around the Mark account, Mark 11. And so I'm gonna read the text, and then I'll read the question as it came to me. So this is Mark 11. And let me encourage you to, for the consideration of the things that we do in a practice such as this, the helpfulness of actually writing out a question helps get straighter to the point and to the question than to necessarily make a statement. And this was a good question. I think this is not an example of someone making a statement. This is someone asking a genuine question surrounding the claim of what happens. This is in relationship to the barren fig tree. So this is late in Jesus's ministry. It's days before his crucifixion. And so the question is around these verses in Mark chapter 11. Let me read verses 12, 13, and 14 to give some context. This is on the on the next day when they had left Bethany. This is Jesus and the disciples. He he that's Jesus became hungry and seen at a distance a fig tree that had leaves. He went to see if perhaps he would find anything on it. And when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves. And it was not the season for for it was not the season for figs. And he answered and he said to it, so Jesus, speaking to the tree, may no one ever eat fruit from you again. And his disciples were listening. So that's the context. The question is this, and we'll let John and Mark answer this question. We'll all answer, we'll all think on it. Why was it all right for Christ to curse the fig tree for not producing fruit when it was not the season for fig trees to produce fruit. The question is, why was it all right for Christ to curse the fig tree for not producing fruit when it was not the season for fig trees to produce fruit. So if I understand what you were asking or the person who was asking the question was, Jesus should have known better that it was not the season for the figs to be in. It's like me going out to my apple tree in the backyard tonight in the dead of winter and saying, you stinking apple tree, why don't you have apples on it? I'm cursing or I'm going to chop you down. And why wouldn't Jesus know better than to say something like that? Obviously, I think the thing that strikes me first is Jesus knew that. But Jesus was always teaching. And he was always using things as object lessons. And I think the object is the fruitlessness of either fruitless Christians, or perhaps maybe in the Pharisees, displaying themselves as individuals are fruitful when in fact they have no fruit, no godly fruit in their lives. Maybe humanistic fruit, I suppose, but they're full of leaves, but there's no fruit. I don't know if it's as simple as that or not. Maybe there's something deeper to it, but it just seems like that, you know, Jesus was constantly looking for And it did say he was hungry, and he saw the tree in the distance, and he said, hey, I'm going to go check this out. Well, don't you think Jesus would have known that it wasn't seasoned for the fruit? I mean, it states it right there, that it was not the season for figs. So why would he be mad at the tree for not producing something that's not even in season? Part of the question is, why does he curse You know, why is he angry, essentially, at the tree for not producing fruit when it was not the season for it to produce fruit? And again, I think that it's probably, it's just an object lesson that Jesus is Trying to and and I I could be wrong. I could be off base on this, but I'm thinking what Jesus is saying is Look, look at you fruitless Christians who claim to be Godly, but there is no evidence in you or people who claim to be followers of me There's no evidence in you and there's leaves and you look like what you're supposed to look like, but there's no evidence and there's no fruit. You're not producing anything with your lives. You really need to take it into context of not just the verses that were read, but where things are and what's just happened in regard to Jesus. He's just come into Jerusalem. He's claiming himself as the Messiah and the King. He's coming into what should be the glory time of Israel for them to have become everything that God wants them to be, and he finds them short, okay? And so we see in chapter 11, as it starts out, we have the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, and then we have this picture of Jesus going to this fig tree. You know, you answer the question real quick, why is it alright for Christ to curse the fig tree? Because he can, because he's Christ. Okay, he can go do whatever he wants to do. But why does he do it? One, and John's exactly right, it's a recognition of the almost there but not quite there Israel. They've got leaves, they've got the prophets, they've got the word, they've got all this, everything that they need except him. They're almost there. And so he makes a statement by this demonstration. Cursed. Are you Israel? No one from here on out will be blessed by you will eat from you. Okay. But it is an object lesson, but it's not an object lesson about fruit to really get to the context. You have to go down to verse 20 and let's read from there because here's the lesson. As they passed in the morning, they saw the fig tree that was withered at its roots, and Peter remembered and said to him, Rabbi, look, the fig tree that you cursed has withered. And Jesus answered them, have faith in God. Now let's stop right there. The disciples did not ask the question, Jesus, why did you curse this fig tree when you knew it was not time for fruit? Wouldn't that be the obvious question? They didn't ask that. They said, here's the fig tree. Now here's what Jesus teaches them about what he was doing. Have faith in God, verse 23. Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, be taken up and be thrown into the sea and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that whatever he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be yours. Jesus is teaching about authority. I have authority to curse Israel. I have authority to do whatever I want to do. You too can have the same authority that I have and do greater things than me, even moving mountains, if you will just do it in faith." Now why do we see this as an authority issue? Again, he just came in and said, I'm king. I have the authority. And then he shows them he has the authority. And then he teaches them, you can have this authority. And what's the very next thing that we have in the scripture? We have the Pharisees attacking his authority. So this whole section right here in context is about the authority that Christ has over all things. Yeah, I appreciate what both of you guys are saying in the observation of this. It does, for us who don't have fig trees, We would have to then go and read and study a little bit about fig trees to have a better understanding of this as well. I mean, I don't, there's not a tree in my yard that has a leaf on it right now. And I'm not expecting the apple tree to have apples on it. I'm not expecting the, my new place, I have a nectarine tree. And I have yet to see it produce a nectarine. There's also not any leaves on it. But what we do know about fig trees is if they have leaves on them, it would be expected of anyone who sees the tree with leaves on it that there's figs in it. And so I agree with the brothers. I think what is being said here is Jesus is saying, I want you guys to understand that as we're, I came to this tree because it presented itself as having nutritious fruit on it. And we got here and it had nothing. He's turning to the Pharisees. We came to you because you presented yourselves as having nutritious spiritual food for us. And we got there and you got nothing for us. So I think that's how I have come to observe this. I certainly didn't come to that with a automatic agricultural knowledge of fig trees. But when you learn that that's why Jesus went to that tree, because it actually had leaves on it. And anyone in this region would see a fig tree with leaves on it, you go there because there's going to be figs on it. And so it's not bearing any fruit. So he curses it. And the spectacularness of it is that both Matthew's and Mark's accounting of it will tell us that it withered up from the roots up. And it happened extraordinarily fast, maybe within a 24-hour period of time. But the observing of it withering is happening in front of your eyes. It's not something that, well, it's natural, it's getting colder at night, it's gonna start to lose its leaves. I mean, it's like it died right there. And that's another great picture of the text that we have of the branches being broken off of the vine. They're set for the fire. This particular fig tree died from the root because the root, Jesus, was taken away from it. Great. OK. Do you have anything else you want to add to it? No. No, that's good.