you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it. Protestant biblical commentator Heinrich Meyer notes that "Jesus is not here referring to the Gentiles, as, since Eusebius’ time, many ... have supposed, but, as the use of the singular already plainly indicates, to the whole of the future subjects of the kingdom of the Messiah, conceived of as one people, which will therefore consist of Jews and Gentiles, [the] new Messianic people of God", the "holy nation" addressed as such in . The phrase "the fruits of it" means "the fruits of the kingdom". See also Bethany and Bethphage on Mount of Olives Fig tree Parables of Jesus Other related Bible parts: Psalm 8, Isaiah 5, Isaiah 56, Jeremiah 7, Zechariah 9, Mark 11, Mark 12, Luke 19, Luke 20, John 2, John 12 References Sources External links King James Bible - Wikisource English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate Online Bible at GospelHall.org (ESV, KJV, Darby, American Standard Version, Bible in Basic English) Multiple bible versions at Bible Gateway (NKJV, NIV, NRSV etc.) Gospel of Matthew chapters