Mark 11:15-25

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

15 ¹And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of ²the money-changers and the seats of those who sold ³pigeons.

16 And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple.

17 And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ⁴‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But ⁵you have made it a den of robbers. ”

18 And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and ⁶were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because ⁷all the crowd was astonished at his teaching.

19 ⁸And when evening came they^[a] went out of the city.

The Lesson from the Withered Fig Tree

20 ⁹As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots.

21 And Peter remembered and said to him, ¹⁰“Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered. ”

22 And Jesus answered them, “Have ¹¹faith in God.

23 ¹²Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ¹³‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea, ’ and does not ¹⁴doubt in his heart, but ¹⁵believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.

24 Therefore I tell you, ¹⁶whatever you ask in prayer, ¹⁷believe that you ¹⁸have received^[b] it, and it will be yours.

25 And whenever ¹⁹you stand praying, ²⁰forgive, ²¹if you have anything against anyone, so that ²²your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. ” ^[c]

Cross References

• 1. 11:15 For ver. 15-18, see Matt. 21:12-16; Luke 19:45-47; [John 2:14-16]
• 2. 11:15 [Ex. 30:13]
• 3. 11:15 Lev. 1:14; 5:7; 12:8; Luke 2:24
• 4. 11:17 Cited from Isa. 56:7
• 5. 11:17 Jer. 7:11
• 6. 11:18 See Matt. 21:46
• 7. 11:18 See Matt. 7:28
• 8. 11:19 Luke 21:37; [ver. 11]
• 9. 11:20 For ver. 20-24, see Matt. 21:19-22
• 10. 11:21 See John 1:38
• 11. 11:22 Eph. 3:12; Phil. 3:9
• 12. 11:23 Matt. 17:20
• 13. 11:23 [Ps. 46:2; 1 Cor. 13:2; Rev. 8:8]
• 14. 11:23 Rom. 4:20; 14:23; James 1:6
• 15. 11:23 [ch. 16:17; John 14:12]
• 16. 11:24 See Matt. 7:7
• 17. 11:24 [See ver. 23 above]
• 18. 11:24 [Isa. 65:24; Matt. 6:8]
• 19. 11:25 Matt. 6:5; Luke 18:11
• 20. 11:25 See Matt. 6:14
• 21. 11:25 Col. 3:13; [Matt. 5:23; 6:15]
• 22. 11:25 Matt. 7:11

Footnotes

• [a] 11:19 Some manuscripts 'he'
• [b] 11:24 Some manuscripts 'are receiving'
• [c] 11:25 Some manuscripts add verse 26: 'But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in heaven forgive your trespasses'