17. And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”
18. And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching.
19. And when evening came they went out of the city.
20. As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots.
21. And Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.”