Matthew 2:9
2:9 After listening to the king they left, and once again 1 the star they saw when it rose 2 led them until it stopped above the place where the child was.
Matthew 21:19
21:19 After noticing a fig tree 3 by the road he went to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, “Never again will there be fruit from you!” And the fig tree withered at once.
1 tn Grk “and behold the star.”
2 tn See the note on the word “rose” in 2:2.
3 tn Grk “one fig tree.”
sn The fig tree is a variation on the picture of a vine as representing the nation; see Isa 5:1-7.