Matthew 21:12–27

¹²And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and did cast forth all those selling and buying in the temple, and the tables of the money-changers he overturned, and the seats of those selling the doves, ¹³and he saith to them, ‘It hath been written, My house a house of prayer shall be called, but ye did make it a den of robbers.’ ¹⁴And there came to him blind and lame men in the temple, and he healed them, ¹⁵and the chief priests and the scribes having seen the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David,’ were much displeased; ¹⁶and they said to him, ‘Hearest thou what these say?’ And Jesus saith to them, ‘Yes, did ye never read, that, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou didst prepare praise?’ ¹⁷And having left them, he went forth out of the city to Bethany, and did lodge there.

¹⁸And in the morning turning back to the city, he hungered, ¹⁹and having seen a certain fig-tree on the way, he came to it, and found nothing in it except leaves only, and he saith to it, ‘No more from thee may fruit be—to the age;’ and forthwith the fig-tree withered. ²⁰And the disciples having seen, did wonder, saying, ‘How did the fig-tree forthwith wither?’ ²¹And Jesus answering said to them, ‘Verily I say to you, If ye may have faith, and may not doubt, not only this of the fig-tree shall ye do, but even if to this mount ye may say, Be lifted up and be cast into the sea, it shall come to pass; ²²and all—as much as ye may ask in the prayer, believing, ye shall receive.’

²³And he having come to the temple, there came to him when teaching the chief priests and the elders of the people, saying, ‘By what authority dost thou do these things? and who gave thee this authority?’ ²⁴And Jesus answering said to them, ‘I will ask you—I also—one word, which if ye may tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things; ²⁵the baptism of John, whence was it?—from heaven, or from men?’ And they were reasoning with themselves, saying, ‘If we should say, From heaven; he will say to us, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him? ²⁶and if we should say, From men, we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.’ ²⁷And answering Jesus they said, ‘We have not known.’ He said to them—he also—‘Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.