16. And He did not allow anyone to carry a vessel through the Set-apart Place.
17. And He was teaching, saying to them, “Has it not been written, ‘My House shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a ‘den of robbers.’ ”
18. And the scribes and the chief priests heard it and they were seeking how to destroy Him, for they feared Him, because all the crowd was astonished at His teaching.
19. And when evening came, He went out of the city.
20. And in the morning, passing by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
21. Then Kĕpha, remembering, said to Him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered.”
22. And יהושע answering, said to them, “Have belief in Elohim.
23. “For truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says, shall be done, he shall have whatever he says.
24. “Because of this I say to you, whatever you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.
25. “And whenever you stand praying, if you hold whatever against anyone, forgive, so that your Father in the heavens shall also forgive you your trespasses.