Sublime

Jerusalem, with a Jewish population of 100,000, was to be internationalized but cut off from the Jewish areas.

Jerusalem;

38 The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when the city shall be rebuilt for the LORD from the tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. 39And the measuring line shall go out farther, straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah. 40The whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes, and all the fields as far as the Wadi Kidron, to the corn

who confirms the word of his servant, and fulfills the prediction of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, “It shall be inhabited,” and of the cities of Judah, “They shall be rebuilt, and I will raise up their ruins”;

He has come seeking fruit, and, finding none, he is announcing the Temple’s doom. The fig tree action is therefore an acted parable of an acted parable. This is now regularly noted by scholars.197 But the connection with Jeremiah is not so frequently made. Shortly after the passage quoted above, we find the following: They have treated the wound of

If, after all, he looked like leading a whole town astray, then Deuteronomy 13:12–18 would come into play; it has been suggested that this was why several towns refused to countenance his teaching, since to do so would court disaster for them as well as for him.