Matthew 21:15-25

15 But when the chief Kohanim and the Sofrim saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, "Hoshia`na to the son of David!" they were moved with indignation,

16 and said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" Yeshua said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?'"

17 He left them, and went forth out of the city to Beit-Anyah, and lodged there.

18 Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.

19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away.

20 When the talmidim saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree immediately wither away?"

21 Yeshua answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you, if you have faith, and don't doubt, you will not only do what is done to the fig tree, but even if you will tell this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it will be done.

22 All things, whatever you will ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."

23 When he had come into the temple, the chief Kohanim and the Zakenim of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, "By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?"

24 Yeshua answered them, "I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things.

25 The immersion of Yochanan, where was it from? From heaven or from men?" They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we will say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?'