¹⁸ and in the morning turning back to the city, he hungered,

² and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he did hunger.

¹ At that time did Jesus go on the sabbaths through the corn, and his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck ears, and to eat,

¹² And on the morrow, they having come forth from Bethany, he hungered,

¹³ and having seen a fig-tree afar off having leaves, he came, if perhaps he shall find anything in it, and having come to it, he found nothing except leaves, for it was not a time of figs,

¹⁴ and Jesus answering said to it, `No more from thee -- to the age -- may any eat fruit;' and his disciples were hearing.

²⁰ And in the morning, passing by, they saw the fig-tree having been dried up from the roots,

²¹ and Peter having remembered saith to him, `Rabbi, lo, the fig-tree that thou didst curse is dried up.'

²² And Jesus answering saith to them, `Have faith of God;

²³ for verily I say to you, that whoever may say to this mount, Be taken up, and be cast into the sea, and may not doubt in his heart, but may believe that the things that he saith do come to pass, it shall be to him whatever he may say.

²⁴ Because of this I say to you, all whatever -- praying -- ye do ask, believe that ye receive, and it shall be to you.

¹⁵ for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but `one' tempted in all things in like manner -- apart from sin;

² forty days being tempted by the Devil, and he did not eat anything in those days, and they having been ended, he afterward hungered,