Matthew 21:18
New International Version
Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry.

New Living Translation
In the morning, as Jesus was returning to Jerusalem, he was hungry,

English Standard Version
In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he became hungry.

Berean Standard Bible
In the morning, as Jesus was returning to the city, He was hungry.

Berean Literal Bible
And in the morning, having come back into the city, He became hungry.

King James Bible
Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.

New King James Version
Now in the morning, as He returned to the city, He was hungry.

New American Standard Bible
Now in the early morning, when He was returning to the city, He became hungry.

NASB 1995
Now in the morning, when He was returning to the city, He became hungry.

NASB 1977
Now in the morning, when He returned to the city, He became hungry.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now in the morning, when He was returning to the city, He became hungry.

Amplified Bible
Now early in the morning, as Jesus was coming back to the city, He was hungry.

Christian Standard Bible
Early in the morning, as he was returning to the city, he was hungry.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Early in the morning, as He was returning to the city, He was hungry.

American Standard Version
Now in the morning as he returned to the city, he hungered.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But at dawn when he returned to the city he was hungry.

Contemporary English Version
When Jesus got up the next morning, he was hungry. He started out for the city,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And in the morning, returning into the city, he was hungry.

English Revised Version
Now in the morning as he returned to the city, he hungered.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
In the morning, as Jesus returned to the city, he became hungry.

Good News Translation
On his way back to the city early next morning, Jesus was hungry.

International Standard Version
In the morning, as Jesus was returning to the city, he became hungry.

Literal Standard Version
and in the morning turning back to the city, He hungered,

Majority Standard Bible
In the morning, as Jesus was returning to the city, He was hungry.

New American Bible
When he was going back to the city in the morning, he was hungry.

NET Bible
Now early in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.

New Revised Standard Version
In the morning, when he returned to the city, he was hungry.

New Heart English Bible
Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.

Webster's Bible Translation
Now in the morning as he was returning into the city, he was hungry.

Weymouth New Testament
Early in the morning as He was on His way to return to the city He was hungry,

World English Bible
Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.

Young's Literal Translation
and in the morning turning back to the city, he hungered,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Barren Fig Tree
17Then He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where He spent the night. 18 In the morning, as Jesus was returning 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. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered.…

Cross References
Mark 11:12
The next day, when they had left Bethany, Jesus was hungry.

Mark 11:20
As they were walking back in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered from its roots.


Treasury of Scripture

Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungry.

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Mark 11:12,13
And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: …

he hungered.

Matthew 4:2
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

Matthew 12:1
At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.

Luke 4:2
Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

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Matthew 21
1. Jesus rides into Jerusalem upon a donkey
12. drives the buyers and sellers out of the temple;
17. curses the fig tree;
23. puts to silence the priests and elders,
28. and rebukes them by the parable of the two sons,
33. and the husbandmen who slew such as were sent to them.














(18) In the morning.--The word implies "daybreak," probably about 5 A.M. This was the usual Jewish time for the first food of the day. If we may infer from Luke 21:37, John 18:1, that the greater part of the night had been spent either in solitary prayer or in converse with the disciples, we have an explanation of the exhaustion which sought food wherever there might seem even a chance of finding it.

Verses 18-22. - The cursing of the barren fig tree. (Mark 11:12-14:, 20-26.) Verse 18. - In the morning (πρωίας, which implies a very early time of the day, and is a term used for the fourth or last watch of the night, Mark 1:35). St. Matthew has combined in one view a transaction which had two separate stages, as we gather from the narrative of St. Mark. The curse was uttered on the Monday morning, before the cleansing of the temple; the effect was beheld and the lesson given on the Tuesday, when Jesus was visiting Jerusalem for the third time (vers. 20-22). Strauss and his followers, resenting the miraculous in the incident, have imagined that the whole story is merely an embodiment and development of the parable of the fruitless fig tree recorded by St. Luke (Luke 13:6, etc.), which in course of time assumed this historical form. There is no ground whatever for this idea. It claims to be, and doubtless is, the account of a real fact, naturally connected with the circumstances of the time, and of great practical importance. He hungered. True Man, he showed the weakness of his human nature, even when about to exert his power in the Divine. There is no need, rather it is unseemly to suppose (as many old commentators have done), that this hunger was miraculous or assumed, in order to give occasion for the coming miracle. Christ had either passed the night on the mountain-side in prayer and fasting, or had started from his lodging without breaking his fast. His followers do not seem to have suffered in the same way; and it was doubtless owing to his mental preoccupation and self-forgetfulness that the Lord had not attended to bodily wants.

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Greek
In the morning,
Πρωῒ (Prōi)
Adverb
Strong's 4404: Early in the morning, at dawn. Adverb from pro; at dawn; by implication, the day-break watch.

as [Jesus] was returning
ἐπανάγων (epanagōn)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 1877: From epi and anago; to lead up on, i.e. to put out; to return.

to
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

the
τὴν (tēn)
Article - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

city,
πόλιν (polin)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4172: A city, the inhabitants of a city. Probably from the same as polemos, or perhaps from polus; a town.

He was hungry.
ἐπείνασεν (epeinasen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 3983: To be hungry, needy, desire earnestly. From the same as penes; to famish; figuratively, to crave.


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