Once when Christ Jesus was hungry, he and his disciples came to a fig tree with no fruit on it, just leaves. Discovering the tree's false signal—the leaves were a sign that the tree should have had fruit—Jesus declared, "Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever.
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