Matthew 21:12-22

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

12 ¹And Jesus entered the temple^[a] and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of ²the money-changers and the seats of those who sold ³pigeons.

13 He said to them, "It is written, ⁴'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but ⁵you make it a den of robbers."

14 ⁶And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

15 ⁷But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, ⁸"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; ⁹have you never read, ¹⁰"'Out of the mouth of ¹¹infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise'?"

17 And ¹²leaving them, he ¹³went out of the city to ¹⁴Bethany and lodged there.

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

18 ¹⁵In the morning, as he was returning to the city, ¹⁶he became hungry.

19 ¹⁷And 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?"

21 And Jesus answered them, ¹⁸"Truly, I say to you, ¹⁹if you have faith and ²⁰do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ²¹'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' it will happen.

22 And ²²whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, ²³if you have faith."

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