8. Many spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread branches cut from the fields.
9. Those going before and those following kept shouting, “Hoshia-na! Baruch ha-ba b’shem Adonai! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!
10. Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hoshia-na in the highest!”
11. And He entered Jerusalem and went into the Temple. After looking around at everything, He went out to Bethany with the Twelve, since it was already late.
12. The next day, when they had left Bethany, He became hungry.
13. Seeing from a distance a fig tree in leaf, He went to see if He would find any fruit on it. When He came up to it, He found nothing except leaves, because it wasn’t the season for figs.
14. And He said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” And His disciples were listening.
15. Then they came to Jerusalem. And He entered the Temple and started to drive out those selling and buying in the Temple. He overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those selling doves,
16. and He wouldn’t let anyone carry goods through the Temple.
17. And He began to teach them, saying, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’”
18. The ruling kohanim and Torah scholars heard this and began looking for a way to destroy Him; for they were afraid of Him, because the whole crowd was astonished at His teaching.
19. Whenever evening came, Yeshua and His disciples would leave the city.
20. As they were passing by in the morning, they saw the fig tree shriveled from the roots.
21. Peter remembered and said to Yeshua, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree You cursed has shriveled up!”
22. And Yeshua answered, saying to them, “Have faith in God!