But after all, it may be questioned, if Infidels should go about it, whether this Work of _Jesus_ was miraculous; and whether there was not more of the Craft of Man, than of the Power of God in it; or to use Mr. _Chandler_'s[154] Words, whether it don't _look like the little Tricks and cunning Deceits of Impostors_. St. _Matthew_ says, _presently the Figtree withered away_; but this _presently_ is an indeterminate Time, and may be understood of a Day, or a Week or two, as well as of the Moment in which the Words were spoken, _Let no Fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever_. St. _Mark_ says, _that in the Morning as the Disciples passed by; they saw the Figtree dry'd up from the Roots_, which was at least the Day[155] after the Curse was utter'd, so that there was certainly four and twenty Hours for its withering; and if it is said that the _Tree dry'd up from the Roots_, it does not imply that the Trunk of it perish'd, or was reduc'd to nothing; but only that the green Leaves of the Whole, and of every Part of it, were in a withering Condition: And might not all this be done without a Miracle? What if _Jews_ and _Infidels_ should say, that _Jesus_, being minded to impose on his Disciples and Followers, took a secret Opportunity beforehand to lay his Carpenter's Ax to the Root of this Tree, and so imperceptibly circumcised it, as that the Leaves did, what they will do, wither in a Night and a Day's Time. God forbid, that I should think, _Jesus_ did so; but as to the Possibility of such a Fraud in an Impostor, none can doubt of it.