*Now from the fig tree, learn this parable. When the branch has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near;
Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, *Let there be no fruit from you forever!* Immediately the fig tree withered away.
Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky.
even so you also, when you see these things coming to pass, know that it is near, at the doors.