Christians: Why did Jesus curse the fig tree, when it wasn't its season to bear fruit?

I guess you've never had a serious craving for figs. My next door neighbor has a tall fig tree with branches that extend over to my yard. The figs are huge and delicious, but only when in season of course. If I wanted figs today, I would be out of luck. F that tree!! I hope its branches fall off or it gets eaten by worms or something. I want some friggin figs like NOW and the dadgum tree just sits there completely useless. Die fig tree, DIE!!!

Christians: Why did Jesus curse the fig tree, when it wasn't its season to bear fruit?
He was having a bad day, and didn't want to take his father's name in vain.
Reply:It was just pure frustration he was taking out.
Reply:And why won't he heal amputees?
Reply:It was a message to his Disciples. The fig tree represented ancient Israel. Jesus approached Israel seeking the "fruit" of righteousness, and found none. It was cursed never to bear fruit again. Shortly afterwards the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed, never to be rebuilt.



The author points out that figs were out of season, meaning that Jesus was using the fig tree as an illustration.





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Reply:How do you know it wasn't time for it to bear fruit? Which species of Ficus was it?!



And could it be possible that there is a use for figs before they are mature?



Toward the end of March the leaves begin to appear, and in about a week the foliage coating is complete. Coincident with [this], and sometimes even before, there appears quite a crop of small knobs, not the real figs, but a kind of early forerunner. They grown to the size of green almonds, in which condition they are eaten by peasants and others when hungry. When they come to their own indefinite maturity they drop off." These precursors of the true fig are called taqsh in Palestinian Arabic. Their appearance is a harbinger of the fully formed appearance of the true fig some six weeks later. So, as Mark says, the time for figs had not yet come. But if the leaves appear without any taqsh, that is a sign that there will be no figs. Since Jesus found "nothing but leaves" - leaves without any taqsh- he knew that "it was an absolutely hopeless, fruitless fig tree" and said as much.