15. After Jesus and his disciples reached Jerusalem, he went into the temple and began chasing out everyone who was selling and buying. He turned over the tables of the moneychangers and the benches of those who were selling doves.
16. Jesus would not let anyone carry things through the temple.
17. Then he taught the people and said, “The Scriptures say, ‘My house should be called a place of worship for all nations.’ But you have made it a place where robbers hide!”
18. The chief priests and the teachers of the Law of Moses heard what Jesus said, and they started looking for a way to kill him. They were afraid of him, because the crowds were completely amazed at his teaching.
19. That evening, Jesus and the disciples went outside the city.
20. As the disciples walked past the fig tree the next morning, they noticed that it was completely dried up, roots and all.
21. Peter remembered what Jesus had said to the tree. Then Peter said, “Teacher, look! The tree you put a curse on has dried up.”
22. Jesus told his disciples:Have faith in God!
23. If you have faith in God and don't doubt, you can tell this mountain to get up and jump into the sea, and it will.
24. Everything you ask for in prayer will be yours, if you only have faith.
25-26. Whenever you stand up to pray, you must forgive what others have done to you. Then your Father in heaven will forgive your sins.
27. Jesus and his disciples returned to Jerusalem. And as he was walking through the temple, the chief priests, the nation's leaders, and the teachers of the Law of Moses came over to him.