Matthew 21:10-20

10 And ¹when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, "Who is this?"

11 And the crowds said, "This is ²the prophet Jesus, ³from Nazareth of Galilee."

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

12 ⁴And Jesus entered the temple^[a] and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of ⁵the money-changers and the seats of those who sold ⁶pigeons.

13 He said to them, "It is written, ⁷'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but ⁸you make it a den of robbers."

14 ⁹And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

15 ¹⁰But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, ¹¹"Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant,

16 and they said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes; ¹²have you never read, ¹³"'Out of the mouth of ¹⁴infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise'?"

17 And ¹⁵leaving them, he ¹⁶went out of the city to ¹⁷Bethany and lodged there.

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

18 ¹⁸In the morning, as he was returning to the city, ¹⁹he became hungry.

19 ²⁰And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, "May no fruit ever come from you again!" And the fig tree withered at once.

20 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree wither at once?"