14. The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them.
15. But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David,’ they were indignant.
16. ‘Do you hear what these children are saying?’ they asked him.‘Yes,’ replied Jesus, ‘have you never read,‘ “From the lips of children and infantsyou, Lord, have called forth your praise”?’
17. And he left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where he spent the night.
18. Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry.
19. Seeing a fig-tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, ‘May you never bear fruit again!’ Immediately the tree withered.
20. When the disciples saw this, they were amazed. ‘How did the fig-tree wither so quickly?’ they asked.