Matthew 21:12–27

¹²And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and cast out all that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those that sold the doves. ¹³And he says to them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of robbers. ¹⁴And blind and lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. ¹⁵And when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonders which he wrought, and the children crying in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David, they were indignant, ¹⁶and said to him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus says to them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise? ¹⁷And leaving them he went forth out of the city to Bethany, and there he passed the night.

¹⁸But early in the morning, as he came back into the city, he hungered. ¹⁹And seeing one fig-tree in the way, he came to it and found on it nothing but leaves only. And he says to it, Let there be never more fruit of thee for ever. And the fig-tree was immediately dried up. ²⁰And when the disciples saw it, they wondered, saying, How immediately is the fig-tree dried up! ²¹And Jesus answering said to them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and do not doubt, not only shall ye do what is done to the fig-tree, but even if ye should say to this mountain, Be thou taken away and be thou cast into the sea, it shall come to pass. ²²And all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

²³And when he came into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, saying, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority? ²⁴And Jesus answering said to them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things: ²⁵The baptism of John, whence was it? of heaven or of men? And they reasoned among themselves, saying, If we should say, Of heaven, he will say to us, Why then have ye not believed him? ²⁶but if we should say, Of men, we fear the crowd, for all hold John for a prophet. ²⁷And answering Jesus they said, We do not know. He also said to them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.