8. And a very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road.
9. And the crowds who went ahead of him and the ones who followed were shouting, saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven!”
10. And when he entered into Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”
11. And the crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee!”
12. And Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who were selling doves.
13. And he said to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a cave of robbers!”
14. And the blind and the lame came up to him in the temple courts and he healed them.
15. But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children shouting in the temple courts and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant.
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?”
21. And Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will do not only what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,” it will happen!
22. And whatever you ask in prayer, if you believe, you will receive.”
23. And after he arrived at the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him while he was teaching, saying, “By what authority are you doing these things? And who gave you this authority?”
24. And Jesus answered and said to them, “I also will ask you one question. If you tell the answer to me, I also will tell you by what authority I am doing these things.