18 In the morning, as he headed back into the city, Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) was hungry. 19 He saw a single fig tree near the road, but when he got close, it only had leaves on it, so he told it, “You’ll never bear fruit again,” and immediately the fig tree withered up.

20 His apprentices who saw this happen were amazed and asked each other, “How did that tree instantly wither up?”

21 “I can assure you apprentices,” Yeshua answered, “that if you have faith and don’t doubt, not only could you do that to a fig tree, you could tell this hill to move itself into the sea, and it would happen.[ref] 22 You’d be able to do everything—anything you request in prayer, believing that it’ll happen.”

12 The next day after they’d left Beyt-Ania (Bethany) village (Bethany), Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) was hungry. 13 From a distance he noticed a fig tree that was in leaf so he went over to see if there was any fruit on it, but when he reached it there was only leaves because it wasn’t the right season for figs. 14 So he spoke to the tree, “No one in this age will ever eat fruit from you again.” (His followers heard him say that.)

15 Then they came back into Yerushalem (Jerusalem) and on into the temple where Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) started driving out the sellers and the buyers that were trading in there. Then he tipped over the money-changers’ tables and the chairs of the ones selling doves, 16 and stopped others from carrying goods through the temple. 17 He taught them, “Isn’t it written in the scriptures,

‘My house will be known as a prayer house for all the nations to use’?[ref]

But all of you have turned it into a sanctuary for swindlers.”[ref]

18 When the chief priests and the religious teachers heard that, they started looking for a way that they could destroy him, because they were afraid of him and the way that the whole crowd marvelled at his teaching.

19 Every evening, Yeshua and his apprentices would go out of the city to stay overnight.

20 As they entered the city again in the morning, Yeshua’s (Jesus’; Grk. Yesus’) apprentices noticed that the fig tree was totally dead. 21 Kefa (Peter; Grk. Petros) remembered what he had said to the tree, and commented, “Teacher, that fig tree that you cursed has withered up.”

22 “Use your faith in God, Yeshua responded. 23 I can assure you all that if anyone tells a mountain to go away into the sea, and doesn’t doubt in their mind but believes that what they’re saying will happen, then it will.[ref] 24 So I tell you all that anything you ask God for in your prayers, if you believe that you have received it, then you will.