But _Jesus_ was hungry, some will say, and the Disappointment provoked him. What if he was hungry? He should, as he knew the Return of his Appetite, have made a better and more certain Provision for it. Where was _Judas_ his Steward and Caterer with his Bag of Victuals as well as Money? Poor Forecast, and Management amongst them, or _Jesus_ had never trusted to the uncertain Fruits of a Figtree, which he espy'd at a Distance, for his Breakfast. And if _Jesus_ was frustrated of a long'd-for Meal of Figs, what need he have so reveng'd the Disappointment on the[147] senseless and faultless Tree? Was it, because he was forc'd to fast longer than usual and expedient? not so, I hope neither: Could not Angels, if he was in a desert Place, have administered unto him? Or could not he miraculously have created Bread for himself and his Company, as he multiplied or increased the Loaves for his Thousands in the Wilderness? What Occasion then for his being out of Humour for want of Food? If he was of Power to provide Bread for others on a sudden, he might sure have supply'd his own Necessities, and so have kept his Temper, without breaking into a violent Fit of Passion, upon present Want and Disappointment. But what is yet worse, _the Time of Figs was not yet_, when Jesus look'd and long'd for them. Did ever any one hear or read of any thing more[148] unreasonable than for a Man to expect Fruit out of Season? _Jesus_ could not but know this before he came to the Tree, and if he had had any Consideration, he would not have expected Figs on it, much less, if he had regarded his own Reputation, as a wise Man, would he have so resented the Want of them. What, if a _Yeoman_ of _Kent_ should go to look for _Pipins_ in his Orchard at _Easter_, (the supposed Time[149] that _Jesus_ sought for these Figs) and, because of a Disappointment, cut down all his Trees; What then would his Neighbours make of him; Nothing less, than a _Laughing-stock_; and if the Story got into our publick News, he would be the Jest and Ridicule of Mankind. How _Jesus_ salv'd his Credit upon this his wild Prank; and prevented the Laughter of the _Scribes_ and _Pharisees_ upon it, I know not; but I cannot think of this Part of the Letter of this Story, without smiling at it at this Day; and wonder our _Divines_ are not laugh'd out of Countenance for reading it gravely, and having _Jesus_ in Admiration for it.