'Holy Week'
Mat 21:19-20 And seeing a fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it but leaves, and said to it, " Let no fruit grow on you ever again." Immediately the fig tree withered away. And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree wither away so soon?"
Just before our Lord Jesus exposed the plot of the priesthood and the Jewish leaders to kill Him for fear of the Romans, God told our Lord to curse the fruitless fig tree. This signified the end of the Israelites as His people and also the end of Mosiac law or Judaism.
John 5:19 Then Jesus answered and said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.
Mat 21:21 So Jesus answered and said to them, "Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' it will be done.
If only the faithless Jewish leaders had only a little faith like that of a mustard seed, they could remove mountains. So then, what are the Romans in the eyes of God but just tiny harmless ants?
Scolded Jewish Leaders
Matthew 23:29-33 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.' Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' guilt. Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?"
Our Lord scolded the Jewish leaders as hypocrites! (please read Mat 23) for they claimed that had they been living in the days of their fathers they would know and accept the true prophets and would not murder them.
However, these very same leaders were planning not only to kill just the prophet but their Messiah the Son of God sent by God to save them. They saw their many mighty works that even the whole Jerusalem welcomed Him as the Messiah.
Mat 21:9-11 Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: "Hosanna to the Son of David! 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!' Hosanna in the highest!" And when He had come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, "Who is this?" So the multitudes said, "This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee."
Priesthood Killed Jesus
Mat 27:1-2 When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put Him to death. And when they had bound Him, they led Him away and delivered Him to Pontus Pilate the governor.
It was the Jewish leaders who plotted and succeeded in killing Jesus. Though at the beginning of the week, Jesus was proclaimed the King by the whole of Jerusalem, but by the mid week, the Jewish leaders were able to change their mind.
Luke 19:38 saying: " 'Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the LORD!' Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!"
All those in Jerusalem acclaimed Him as the King of Israel, by strangely enough within three days, all of them were deceived by the Jewish leaders to deny His Kingship and also to crucify Him as a criminal.
Note False teachers and false prophets are very convincing.
John 19:14-15 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, "Behold your King!" But they cried out, "Away with Him, away with Him! Crucify Him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"
