Mat 21:19 Let no fruit grow on you [the fig tree] henceforth for ever.

Why would Christ curse a tree simply because it had no fruit on it when he looked for it? On its surface, this is the most self-centered use of power by Christ in the Bible.

However, \there is a clear message here about the physical world. The physical world exist only to support humanity. A plant that fails to produce is doomed. Christ does not see the natural world as existing for its own sake. It exists to support humanity.

"Grow" is from gignomai (ginomai), which means "to become," "to come into being," "to be produced," and "to be."