Matthew 24:32
Good News Translation
"Let the fig tree teach you a lesson. When its branches become green and tender and it starts putting out leaves, you know that summer is near.

New Revised Standard Version
“From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near.

Contemporary English Version
Learn a lesson from a fig tree. When its branches sprout and start putting out leaves, you know summer is near.

New American Bible
“Learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves, you know that summer is near.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And from the fig tree learn a parable: When the branch thereof is now tender and the leaves come forth, you know that summer is nigh.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And from the fig tree learn a parable: When the branch thereof is now tender and the leaves come forth, you know that summer is nigh.

Mark 13:28,29 Now of the fig tree learn ye a parable. When the branch thereof is now tender and the leaves are come forth, you know that summer is very near. . . .

Luke 21:29,30 And he spoke to them a similitude. See the fig tree and all the trees: . . .

Context
The Lesson of the Fig Tree
31And he shall send his angels with a trumpet and a great voice: and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the farthest parts of the heavens to the utmost bounds of them. 32And from the fig tree learn a parable: When the branch thereof is now tender and the leaves come forth, you know that summer is nigh. 33So you also, when you shall see all these things, know ye that it is nigh, even at the doors.…
Cross References
Songs 2:13
The fig tree hath put forth her green figs: the vines in flower yield their sweet smell. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come:

Matthew 24:31
And he shall send his angels with a trumpet and a great voice: and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the farthest parts of the heavens to the utmost bounds of them.

Matthew 24:33
So you also, when you shall see all these things, know ye that it is nigh, even at the doors.

Mark 13:28
Now of the fig tree learn ye a parable. When the branch thereof is now tender and the leaves are come forth, you know that summer is very near.

Matthew 24:31
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