For what reason in all things it behoved him to be made like unto [his] brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things [pertaining] to God-The Father, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if perhaps (maybe) he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not [yet].