15. When the chief priests and the experts in Moses’ Teachings saw the amazing miracles he performed and the children shouting in the temple courtyard, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were irritated.
16. They said to him, “Do you hear what these children are saying?”Jesus replied, “Yes, I do. Have you never read, ‘From the mouths of little children and infants, you have created praise’?”
17. He left them and went out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.
18. In the morning, as Jesus returned to the city, he became hungry.
19. When he saw a fig tree by the road, he went up to the tree and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to the tree, “May fruit never grow on you again!” At once the fig tree dried up.
20. The disciples were surprised to see this. They asked, “How did the fig tree dry up so quickly?”