Matthew 21:12–27

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.

²⁰And the disciples seeing it wondered, saying: How is it presently withered away?

²¹And Jesus answering, said to them: Amen, I say to you, if you shall have faith and stagger not, not only this of the fig tree shall you do, but also if you shall say to this mountain, Take up and cast thyself into the sea, it shall be done.

²²And all things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer believing, you shall receive.

²³And when he was come into the temple, there came to him, as he was teaching, the chief priests and ancients of the people, saying: By what authority dost thou these things? And who hath given thee this authority?

²⁴Jesus answering, said to them: I also will ask you one word, which if you shall tell me, I will also tell you by what authority I do these things.

²⁵The baptism of John, whence was it? From heaven or from men? But they thought within themselves, saying:

²⁶If we shall say, from heaven, he will say to us: Why then did you not believe him? But if we shall say, from men, we are afraid of the multitude: for all held John as a prophet.

²⁷And answering Jesus, they said: We know not. He also said to them: Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.