Matthew 21:12-22

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

12 aAnd Jesus entered the temple
Some manuscripts add of God
and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of cthe money-changers and the seats of those who sold dpigeons.
13He said to them, “It is written, eMy house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but fyou make it a den of robbers.”

14 gAnd the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15 hBut when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, iHosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, 16and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, Yes; jhave you never read,

k“‘Out of the mouth of linfants and nursing babies
you have prepared praise’?”
17And mleaving them, he nwent out of the city to oBethany and lodged there.

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

18 pIn the morning, as he was returning to the city, qhe became hungry. 19 rAnd seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.

20When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither at once?” 21And Jesus answered them, sTruly, I say to you, tif you have faith and udo not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, v‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. 22And wwhatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, xif you have faith.”

Luke 19:45-48

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

45 yAnd he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, 46saying to them, “It is written, zMy house shall be a house of prayer,’ but aayou have made it a den of robbers.”

47 abAnd he was teaching daily in the temple. acThe chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, 48but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.

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