15 And they came to Yerushalayim. יהושע, entering into the Set-apart Place, began to drive out those who bought and sold in the Set-apart Place, and overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those selling doves.
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.”