¹⁸ When the high priests and elders heard this, they began to look for a way to kill him, because they were afraid of him, since the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching. ¹⁹ When evening came, Jesus and his disciples^[a] would leave the city.

The Lesson from the Dried Fig Tree^(A)

²⁰ While they were walking along early the next morning, they saw the fig tree dried up to its roots.