Daily Discovery Bible Study

12 Jesus went into the Temple, and threw out all the people buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the chairs of the dove-sellers.13 He told them, “Scripture says, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you've turned it into a den of thieves.”

14 The blind and the lame came to Jesus in the Temple, and he healed them.15 But when the chief priests and religious teachers saw the wonderful miracles he did, and the children shouting in the Temple, “Hosanna to the son of David,” they were offended.

“Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him.

16 “Yes,” Jesus replied. “Haven't you ever read the Scripture that says, ‘You arranged for children and infants to give you perfect praise’?”17 Jesus left them and went out of the city to stay at Bethany.

18 The next morning as he walked back into the city, he was hungry.19 He saw a fig tree at the side of the road, so he went over to it but didn't find any fruit, only leaves.

He told the fig tree, “May you never ever produce fruit again!” Immediately the fig tree withered.

20 The disciples were amazed to see this. “How did the fig tree wither so suddenly?” they asked.

21 “I tell you the truth,” Jesus replied, “If you really trust in God, and don't doubt him, you could not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even more. If you said to this mountain, ‘Get up and throw yourself into the sea,’ it would happen!22 You will receive everything you ask for in prayer, as long as you trust in God.”

Matthew 21: 12-22