12 The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry.
12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
12 On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry.
12 As they left Bethany the next day, he was hungry.
12 Now the next day, when they had come out from Bethany, He was hungry.
12 The next morning as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Mark 11:12
Commentary on Mark 11:12-18
(Read Mark 11:12-18)
Christ looked to find some fruit, for the time of gathering figs, though it was near, was not yet come; but he found none. He made this fig-tree an example, not to the trees, but to the men of that generation. It was a figure of the doom upon the Jewish church, to which he came seeking fruit, but found none. Christ went to the temple, and began to reform the abuses in its courts, to show that when the Redeemer came to Zion, it was to turn away ungodliness from Jacob. The scribes and the chief priests sought, not how they might make their peace with him, but how they might destroy him. A desperate attempt, which they could not but fear was fighting against God.