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20When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree immediately wither away?” 21Jesus answered them,“Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done. 22All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” 23When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?” 24Jesus answered them,“I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things.