| 19. Linguistic Exegesis The verse opens with the aorist participle idon {ἰδὼν | idṓn} ‘having seen’, which foregrounds the action as a completed observation. The object syken {συκῆν | sukên} ‘fig tree’ is specified by the numeral adjectival mian {μίαν | mían} ‘one’ and located by the genitive prepositional phrase epi tes hodou {ἐπὶ τῆς ὁδοῦ | epì tês ho-doû} ‘beside the road’. The narrative sequence elthen {ἦλθεν | ēlthén} ‘he came’ and heuren {εὗρεν | heurén} ‘he found’ marks the search, with ouden {οὐδὲν | ou-dén} ‘nothing’ narrowed by the conditional clause ei me phulla monon {εἰ μὴ φύλλα μόνον | ei mē phú-lla món-on} ‘if not only leaves’. The main verb legei {λέγει | lé-gei} ‘he says’ introduces a performative declaration using the negative adverb meketi {Μηκέτι | mē-ké-ti} ‘no longer’ with the aorist middle subjunctive genetai {γένηται | gé-nē-tai} in mēketi ek sou karpos genetai eis ton aiona {Μηκέτι ἐκ σοῦ καρπὸς γένηται εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα | mē-ké-ti ek sou kar-pós gé-nē-tai eis ton ai-ō-na} ‘May fruit never again come from you into the age’. The aorist passive exēranthē {ἐξηράνθη | exē-rán-thē} ‘it withered’ with parachrēma {παραχρῆμα | pa-ra-chrê-ma} ‘immediately’ signals instantaneous fulfillment. |