Mark 11:12-25
On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was
hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see whether
perhaps he would find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but
leaves, for it was not the season for figs. He said to it, ‘May no one ever eat
fruit from you again.’ And his disciples heard it.
Then they came to
Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were
selling and those who were buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables
of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold doves; and he would not
allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. He was teaching and saying,
‘Is it not written,
“My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the
nations”?
But you have made it
a den of robbers.’
And when the chief priests and the scribes heard it, they
kept looking for a way to kill him; for they were afraid of him, because the
whole crowd was spellbound by his teaching. And when evening came, Jesus and
his disciples went out of the city.
In the morning as
they passed by, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots. Then Peter
remembered and said to him, ‘Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has
withered.’ Jesus answered them, ‘Have faith in God. Truly I tell you, if you
say to this mountain, “Be taken up and thrown into the sea”, and if you do not
doubt in your heart, but believe that what you say will come to pass, it will
be done for you. So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that
you have received it, and it will be yours.
‘Whenever you stand
praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father in
heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.’
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