16 And they said to him, “Do you hear what these children[a] are saying?” So Jesus said to them, “Yes, have you never read, ‘Out of the mouths of children and nursing babies you have prepared for yourself praise’?”[b] 17 And leaving them, he went outside of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.

A Barren Fig Tree Cursed

18 Now early in the morning, as he[c] was returning to the city, he was hungry.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 21:16 The word “children” is not in the Greek text but is implied
  2. Matthew 21:16 A quotation from Ps 8:2
  3. Matthew 21:18 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“was returning”) which is understood as temporal