Luke 13:6-7
6Then he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree, planted in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any. 7So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, 'For three years now I've been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?'
Matthew 21:18-20
The Fig Tree Withers 18Early in the morning, as he was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. 19Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, "May you never bear fruit again!" Immediately the tree withered.
20When the disciples saw this, they were amazed. "How did the fig tree wither so quickly?" they asked.
Before I went to Israel the only figs I've tasted were the kind in eaten in the Old Testament, 'cakes of figs'. This kind, my auntie brings back from Pakistan. They look like this:
It's called a cake of figs only when it's like this: (they're all threaded through the middle with a weaved rope)
They became coins by being squished and pressed down, when actually they originally looked so fresh and succulent like this green one:
The Figgy Truth
Well I suppose you know for a fruit to become a fruit, it has polinated, usually by insects. Well the fig tree is polinated by wasps. But this form of mutualism is different from most, the wasps lays its eggs inside the fruit, getting a place to lay its eggs. And in turn, it polinates the fig tree.
However, not all the baby wasps make it out alive. *gasps*
Yes, what I meant was, when we eat figs, fresh or dried, we snack up some baby wasps too.
=)
But really, fresh figs are wonderful things.
Don't let this post be a stumbling block towards your fig faith. :
