12. The next day as they were leaving Bethany he was hungry.
13. Seeing from a distance a fig tree in leaf, he went over to see if he could find anything on it. When he reached it he found nothing but leaves; it was not the time for figs.
14. And he said to it in reply, “May no one ever eat of your fruit again!” And his disciples heard it.
15. They came to Jerusalem, and on entering the temple area he began to drive out those selling and buying there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.
16. He did not permit anyone to carry anything through the temple area.
17. Then he taught them saying, “Is it not written:‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples’?But you have made it a den of thieves.”
18. The chief priests and the scribes came to hear of it and were seeking a way to put him to death, yet they feared him because the whole crowd was astonished at his teaching.
19. When evening came, they went out of the city.
20. Early in the morning, as they were walking along, they saw the fig tree withered to its roots.
21. Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.”