Read Mark 11

Mark 11

v1-11: Unlike the crowd of people who would be persuaded by others to shout “Crucify, crucify Him,” it was “God who put it into the hearts of these people to shout ‘Hosanna’… it is God who brings people to honour him beyond their own intentions."

v12-26: The barren fig tree symbolised the Jewish people.  Jesus came seek fruit in them, but found none.   The withering of fig tree shows what came of their rejecting Christ, which would be His rejection of them, so that they remained hardhearted and spiritually blind.

v27-33: "What Christ did by his wisdom, we must seek to do by our doing well: put to silence the ignorance of foolish men."