²⁸ `And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: when the branch may already become tender, and may put forth the leaves, ye know that nigh is the summer;

³² `And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: When already its branch may have become tender, and the leaves it may put forth, ye know that summer `is' nigh,

³³ so also ye, when ye may see all these, ye know that it is nigh -- at the doors.

²⁹ And he spake a simile to them: `See the fig-tree, and all the trees,

³⁰ when they may now cast forth, having seen, of yourselves ye know that now is the summer nigh;

³¹ so also ye, when ye may see these things happening, ye know that near is the reign of God;