16. And they said to him, “Do you hear what these children are saying?” So Jesus said to them, “Yes, have you never read, ‘Out of the mouths of children and nursing babies you have prepared for yourself praise’?”
17. And leaving them, he went outside of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.
18. Now early in the morning, as he was returning to the city, he was hungry.
19. And seeing a single fig tree by the road, he went to it and found nothing on it except leaves only. And he said to it, “May there be no more fruit from you forever, and the fig tree withered at once.
20. And when they saw it, the disciples were astonished, saying, “How did the fig tree wither at once?”