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Annotated Bible article: There is little agreement as to what
Jesus looked like.  The story of Jesus and the fig tree appears
in the New Testament of the Bible, in Matthew 21:17-22 Bible-
icon.png and Mark 11:12-14, 20-26 Bible-icon.png. In this story,
Jesus is hungry and goes up to a fig tree to get something to
eat, even though figs are out of season. When he finds that the
tree has no fruit, he becomes angry and curses the tree to
death. The story sometimes interpreted as a metaphor of the
Pharisees "not bearing good fruit".   This is awfully strange
behavior for an omnibenevolent god to indulge in. Why blame the
tree for not bearing fruit when it is not supposed to bear fruit
at that time of year? Behavior like this allows someone to
declare that Jesus was mentally unbalanced, which satisfies the
second choice of the Liar, Lunat