Mark 11:15–33

¹⁵And they come to Jerusalem, and Jesus having gone into the temple, began to cast forth those selling and buying in the temple, and the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those selling the doves, he overthrew, ¹⁶and he did not suffer that any might bear a vessel through the temple, ¹⁷and he was teaching, saying to them, ‘Hath it not been written—My house a house of prayer shall be called for all the nations, and ye did make it a den of robbers?’ ¹⁸And the scribes and the chief priests heard, and they were seeking how they shall destroy him, for they were afraid of him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching; ¹⁹and when evening came, he was going forth without the city. ²⁰And in the morning, passing by, they saw the fig-tree having been dried up from the roots, ²¹and Peter having remembered saith to him, ‘Rabbi, lo, the fig-tree that thou didst curse is dried up.’ ²²And Jesus answering saith to them, ‘Have faith of God; ²³for verily I say to you, that whoever may say to this mount, Be taken up, and be cast into the sea, and may not doubt in his heart, but may believe that the things that he saith do come to pass, it shall be to him whatever he may say. ²⁴Because of this I say to you, all whatever—praying—ye do ask, believe that ye receive, and it shall be to you.

²⁵‘And whenever ye may stand praying, forgive, if ye have anything against any one, that your Father also who is in the heavens may forgive you your trespasses; ²⁶and, if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in the heavens forgive your trespasses.’

²⁷And they come again to Jerusalem, and in the temple, as he is walking, there come unto him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders, ²⁸and they say to him, ‘By what authority dost thou these things? and who gave thee this authority that these things thou mayest do?’ ²⁹And Jesus answering said to them, ‘I will question you—I also—one word; and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things; ³⁰the baptism of John—from heaven was it? or from men? answer me.’ ³¹And they were reasoning with themselves, saying, ‘If we may say, From heaven, he will say, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him? ³²But if we may say, From men,’—they were fearing the people, for all were holding John that he was indeed a prophet; ³³and answering they say to Jesus, ‘We have not known;’ and Jesus answering saith to them, ‘Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.’

Chapter 12