The Fig Tree
The owner of the vineyard came looking for this on his fig tree but found none.
What is fruit?
Jesus was teaching in one of these locations when he saw the woman who was bent over.
What is a synagogue?
Jesus compares the kingdom of God to this tiny seed that grows into a large tree.
What is a mustard seed?
Jesus tells the people to "strive to enter through" this specific type of entrance.
What is the narrow door?
Some Pharisees warned Jesus to leave because this ruler wanted to kill him.
Who is Herod (Antipas)?
The owner was frustrated because he had come seeking fruit for this many years without success.
What is three years?
The woman had been disabled and unable to straighten herself for this many years.
What is eighteen?
Once the seed grew into a tree, these creatures came to make nests in its branches.
What are the birds of the air?
Jesus warns that once the master of the house rises and shuts the door, people will stand outside doing these two things.
What is knocking and crying out (pleading) ("Lord, open to us")?
Jesus responded by calling that ruler this specific animal name.
What is a fox?
Instead of cutting it down immediately, the vinedresser offered to dig around the tree and apply this.
What is manure (or fertilizer)?
This specific leader was indignant because Jesus had healed the woman on the Sabbath.
Who is the ruler of the synagogue?
In the second parable, the kingdom is compared to leaven (yeast) that a woman hides in this many measures of flour (or pounds).
What is three (or 60 pounds)?
When the people outside claim they ate and drank with the master, he will reply with this phrase.
What is "I do not know where you come from" (or "Depart from me")?
Jesus laments that it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from this city.
What is Jerusalem?
The vinedresser asked for this much more time to see if the tree would bear fruit.
What is one year?
Jesus called his critics hypocrites, pointing out that they untie these two animals to give them water on the Sabbath.
What are an ox and a donkey?
The leaven (yeast) continued to work until this happened to the entire batch of dough.
What is it was all leavened (worked through all the dough)?
Jesus says there will be "weeping and gnashing of teeth" when people see these three patriarchs in the kingdom while they themselves are cast out.
Who are Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?
Jesus compares his desire to gather the children of Jerusalem to this bird gathering her brood under her wings.
What is a hen?
This parable follows Jesus' warning that unless the people do this, they will all likewise perish.
What is repent?
Jesus referred to the healed woman as a "daughter of" this biblical figure.
Who is Abraham?
Both the Mustard Seed and the Leaven parables are meant to illustrate this characteristic of the Kingdom of God.
What is its growth?
In verse 30, Jesus gives this famous reversal: "And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are..."
What is "first who will be last"?
Jesus tells Jerusalem they will not see him again until they say, "Blessed is he who comes in the name of..."
Who is the Lord?