John Lightfoot on Mark 11:13

[For the time of figs was not yet.] See what we have said at Matthew 21:19. The sum is this:

I. The time of figs was so far off, that the time of leaves was scarcely yet present.

II. The other fig trees in the mount were of the common kind of fig trees: and on them were not leaves as yet to be seen. But that which Christ saw with leaves on it, and therefore went to it, was a fig tree of an extraordinary kind.

III. For there was a certain fig tree called Benoth Shuach, which never wanted leaves, and never wanted figs. For every year it bare fruit, but that fruit came not to full ripeness before the third year: and such, we suppose, was this fig tree.