Mark wrote:
... And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon. He did not say it was a charade to provide a spiritual lesson. I believe Mark.
Your view agrees with most of the commentaries. I think the commentaries are mistaken.
Men come to the Bible assuming they know what it teaches, and when they find something that doesn't quite agree with what they expect, they "interpret" it to mean what they want. I only take the plain meaning where it is clear.
The only lesson Jesus himself made from this incident is the lesson on prayer. That's sufficient for me.
People have a very strange Idea that Jesus was not really a human being like other human beings. The Bible says he "became" flesh and blood, that is, a human being. He was not God in a man, He was God become a man, completely a man. Do you suppose Jesus did not have to look where he was walking, find his sandals, and look when he was pouring wine? If he was really a man He would have to, and if He was really a man, he would not know what was on a fig tree until He looked.
Hank
To drive my point home wrt spiritual discernment, I aver that I consulted not a single commentary in coming up with post 124. The meaning was known to me.