In Context

15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, |Hosanna to the son of David!| they were indignant,

16 and said to him, |Do you hear what these are saying?| Jesus said to them, |Yes. Did you never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?'|

17 He left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there.

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

19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, |Let there be no fruit from you forever!| Immediately the fig tree withered away.

20 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, |How did the fig tree immediately wither away?|

Matthew 21:18 in Other Translations