8. And many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches they had cut from the fields.
9. And those who went ahead and those who were following were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!
10. Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest heaven!”
11. And he went into Jerusalem to the temple, and after looking around at everything, because the hour was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
12. And on the next day as they were departing from Bethany, he was hungry.
13. And when he saw from a distance a fig tree that had leaves, he went to see if perhaps he would find anything on it. And when he came up to it he found nothing except leaves, because it was not the season for figs.
14. And he responded and said to it, “Let no one eat fruit from you any more forever!” And his disciples heard it.
15. And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered into the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple courts, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who were selling doves.
16. And he did not permit anyone to carry objects through the temple courts.
17. And he began to teach and was saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations,’ but you have made it a cave of robbers!”
18. And the chief priests and the scribes heard it, and began considering how they could destroy him. For they were afraid of him because the whole crowd was astounded by his teaching.
19. And when evening came they went out of the city.
20. And as they passed by early in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots.
21. And Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered!”
22. And Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God!