He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? Then how will you understand any parable?

Now when Jesus had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.

Now they wanted to arrest him (but they feared the crowd), because they realized that he told this parable against them. So they left him and went away.

“Learn this parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.