--- title: "Lightfoot" description: "And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/lightfoots-commentary-on-the-gospels/mark/11" --- And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve. [And when he had looked round about upon all things.] Compare Mark with the other evangelists concerning the time of casting out the merchants of the Temple, and it will appear that the word *he looked about*; denotes not a bare beholding or looking upon, but a beholding with reproof and correction; *admonition*; among the Jews. And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. [For the time of figs was not yet.] See what we have said at [Matthew 21:19](../../../kjv/matthew/21/19). The sum is this: I. *The time of figs* was so far off, that the time of leaves was scarcely yet present. II. The other fig trees in the mount were of the common kind of fig trees: and on them were not leaves as yet to be seen. But that which Christ saw with leaves on it, and therefore went to it, was a fig tree of an extraordinary kind. III. For there was a certain fig tree called Benoth Shuach; which never wanted leaves, and never wanted figs. For every year it bare fruit, but that fruit came not to full ripeness before the third year: and such, we suppose, was this fig tree. And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple. [And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the Temple.] "What is the reverence of the Temple? That none go into the Mountain of the Temple" *[or the Court of the Gentiles]* "with his staff, and his shoes, with is purse, and dust upon his feet: *and that none make it his common thoroughfare, nor make it a place of spitting*." The same thing is ordered concerning a synagogue; yea, concerning a synagogue that is now laid waste, much more of one that flourisheth: "A synagogue now laid waste, *let not men make it a common passage*." And "his disciples asked R. Eleazar Ben Shammua, Whence hast thou lived so long? He answered, I never made a synagogue a common thoroughfare." It is therefore forbid by the masters, that the court of the Temple be not made a passage for a shorter way. And was not this bridle sufficient wherewith all might be kept back from carrying vessels through the Temple? But the ’castle of Antonia’ joined to the court; and there were shops in the Court of the Gentiles where many things were sold; and that profane vessels were brought hither is scarcely to be denied. 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