Matthew 21:12–19

Cleansing the Temple Complex

¹²Jesus went into the temple complex ^zaand drove out all those buying and selling in the temple. He overturned the money changers’ tables and the chairs of those selling doves. ^b13And He said to them, “It is written, My house will be called a house of prayer. ^cBut you are making it a den of thieves!” ^de

Children Praise Jesus

¹⁴The blind and the lame came to Him in the temple complex, and He healed them. ¹⁵When the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonders that He did and the children shouting in the temple complex, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant ¹⁶and said to Him, “Do You hear what these children are saying?”

“Yes,” Jesus told them. “Have you never read:

You have prepared ^fpraise ^g

from the mouths of children and nursing infants?” ^h

¹⁷Then He left them, went out of the city to Bethany, ⁱand spent the night there.

The Barren Fig Tree

¹⁸Early in the morning, ^jas He was returning to the city, He was hungry. ¹⁹Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He went up to it and found nothing on it except leaves. And He said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” At once the fig tree withered.