¹²And Jesus went into the temple of God and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the money changers and the chairs of them that sold doves.

¹³And he saith to them: It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves.

¹⁴And there came to him the blind and the lame in the temple: and he healed them.

¹⁵And the chief priests and scribes, seeing the wonderful things that he did and the children crying in the temple and saying: Hosanna to the son of David, were moved with indignation,

¹⁶And said to him: Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus said to them: Yea, have you never read: Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

¹⁷And leaving them, he went out of the city into Bethania and remained here.

¹⁸And in the morning, returning into the city, he was hungry.

¹⁹And seeing a certain fig tree by the way side, he came to it and found nothing on it but leaves only. And he saith to it: May no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And immediately the fig tree withered away.

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