A moment in scripture
Mark 11:18
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And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.
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The surrounding passage
- Mark 11:16
And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
- Mark 11:17
And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
- Mark 11:19
And when even was come, he went out of the city.
- Mark 11:20
And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.