12. Yeshua entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.
13. He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”
14. The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
15. But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hoshia'na to the son of David!” they were indignant,
16. and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?”Yeshua said to them, “Yes. Did you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?’”
17. He left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and camped there.
18. Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.
19. Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, “Let there be no fruit from you forever!” Immediately the fig tree withered away.
20. When the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, “How did the fig tree immediately wither away?”
21. Yeshua answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done.
22. All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
23. When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?”
24. Yeshua answered them, “I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things.
25. The immersion of Yochanan, where was it from? From heaven or from men?” They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
26. But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the multitude, for all hold Yochanan as a prophet.”