ββFor three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree but have found none. So cut it down. Why should it exhaust the soil?β
Jesus appointed seventy-two other disciples whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit.
Pay attention to what I am telling you. The Son of Man is to be handed over to men.β But they did not understand this saying; its meaning was hidden from them so that they should not understand it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.