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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.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 21:16 sn A quotation from Ps 8:2.

16 “Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him.

“Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read,

“‘From the lips of children and infants
    you, Lord, have called forth your praise’[a]?”(A)

17 And he left them and went out of the city to Bethany,(B) where he spent the night.

Jesus Curses a Fig Tree(C)

18 Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 21:16 Psalm 8:2 (see Septuagint)