Matthew 21:10-20

10 When He had entered Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, "Who is this?"

11 And the crowds were saying, "This is ¹the prophet Jesus, from ²Nazareth in Galilee."

Cleansing the Temple

12 ³And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the ⁴money changers and the seats of those who were selling ⁵doves.

13 And He said to them, "It is written, '⁶MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER '; but you are making it a ⁷ROBBERS' DEN."

14 And the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and ⁸He healed them.

15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that He had done, and the children who were shouting in the temple, "Hosanna to the ⁹Son of David," they became indignant

16 and said to Him, "Do You hear what these children are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes; have you never read, '¹⁰OUT OF THE MOUTH OF INFANTS AND NURSING BABIES YOU HAVE PREPARED PRAISE FOR YOURSELF'?"

17 And He left them and went out of the city to ¹¹Bethany, and spent the night there.

The Barren Fig Tree

18 ¹²Now in the morning, when He was returning to the city, He became hungry.

19 Seeing a lone ¹³fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it except leaves only; and He said to it, "No longer shall there ever * be any fruit from you." And at once the fig tree withered.

20 Seeing this, the disciples were amazed and asked, "How did the fig tree wither all at once?"

Cross References

• 1. Matthew 21:26; Mark 6:15; Luke 7:16, 39; Luke 13:33; John 4:19">2John 4:19; John 1:21, 25; John 4:19; John 6:14; John 7:40; John 9:17; Acts 3:22; Acts 7:37
• 2. Matthew 2:23
• 3. Matthew 21:12-16: {Mark 11:15-18; Luke 19:45-47;} Matthew 21:12, 13: {John 2:13-16}
• 4. Exodus 30:13
• 5. Leviticus 1:14; Leviticus 5:7; Leviticus 12:8
• 6. Isaiah 56:7
• 7. Jeremiah 7:11
• 8. Matthew 4:23
• 9. Matthew 9:27
• 10. Psalms 8:2; Matthew 11:25
• 11. Matthew 26:6; Mark 11:1, 11, 12; Mark 14:3; Luke 19:29; Luke 24:50; John 11:1, 18; John 12:1
• 12. Matthew 21:18-22: {Mark 11:12-14, 20-24}
• 13. Luke 13:6-9

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "cave"