Matthew 21:16-18

New English Translation

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

The Withered Fig Tree

¹⁸ Now early in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.