Matthew 21:1-14 ▼

1 And when they drew nigh to Jerusalem and were come to Bethphage at the mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples,

2 saying unto them, Go into the village over-against you, and ye will find directly an ass tied and a colt with her: loose them and bring them to me:

3 and if any one say any thing to you, tell him the Lord hath need of them, and he will immediately send them.

4 Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet saying, Tell ye the daughter of Sion,

5 behold, thy king cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, even a colt the fole of an ass.

6 And the disciples went, and did as Jesus ordered them,

7 and brought the ass and the colt, and threw their clothes over them, and set Him upon them.

8 And great numbers spread their garments in the way, and others cut off boughs from the trees, and strewed them in the way:

9 and the multitudes, that went before and that followed, cried saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: blessed be He that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.

10 And when He came into Jerusalem, all the city was in a commotion, saying, Who is this?

11 And the people answered, This is Jesus the prophet, from Nazareth in Galilee.

12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and drove out all that were selling and buying in the court of the temple, and threw down the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold doves:

13 and said to them, It is written, "My house shall be called the house of prayer," but ye have made it a den of thieves.

14 And there came to Him in the temple both blind and lame, and He healed them: