Jesus Did What?

Jesus Did What?

Matthew 21:18-27

He did something that appears .

Matthew 21:18-19 NIV Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. ¹⁹ Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Immediately the tree withered. 

He said his disciple could do the . 

Matthew 21:21-22 NIV Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and it will be done. ²² If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.” 

He  the authorities about his authority. 

Matthew 21:27b NIV Then he said, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things. 

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Jesus cursed the fig tree to illustrate God’s judgment on . 

Jesus didn’t answer the Jewish authorities because of their . 

Micah 7:1 NIV What misery is mine! I am like one who gathers summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster of grapes to eat, none of the early figs that I crave.

 Jeremiah 8:13 NIV I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine. There will be no figs on the tree, and their leaves will wither. What I have given them will be taken from them. 

The disciples would do more than Jesus because they would do the greatest work ever—. 

Acts 1:8 NIV But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

All disciples of Jesus  to this great work. 

Matthew 28:19-20 NIV Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.