Matthew 21:1-25 ▼

1 And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

2 saying to them, “Go into the village ahead of you?, and immediately you? will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Having loosed them, bring them to Me.

3 And if anyone should say anything to you?, you? will say that the Lord has need of them, and immediately he will send them.”

4 And this came to pass so that it might be fulfilled, that having been spoken through the prophet, saying,

5 “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your King comes to you, gentle and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’”

6 And the disciples, having gone and having done as Jesus directed them,

7 led the donkey and the colt and put their garments on them, and He sat on them.

8 And the very large crowd spread their garments in the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and were spreading them in the road.

9 And the crowds going before Him and those following were crying out, saying: “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is the One coming in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest!”

10 And on His having entered into Jerusalem, all the city was shaken, saying, “Who is this?”

11 And the crowds were saying, “This is the prophet, Jesus, the One from Nazareth of Galilee.”

12 And Jesus entered into the temple and cast out all those selling and buying in the temple. And He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling the doves.

13 And He says to them, “It has been written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you? are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”

14 And the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them.

15 But the chief priests and the scribes, having seen the wonders that He did and the children crying out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” were indignant.

16 And they said to Him, “Do You hear what these say?” And Jesus says to them, “Yes. Did you? never read: ‘Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings You prepared praise’?”

17 And having left them, He went out of the city to Bethany, and He lodged there.

18 And in the morning, having come back into the city, He was hungry.

19 And having seen one fig tree on the way, He went to it and found nothing on it except leaves. And He says to it, “Never let there be anymore fruit out of you, to the age!” And the fig tree withered immediately.

20 And having seen it, the disciples marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither immediately?”

21 And answering, Jesus said to them, “Truly I say to you?, if you? shall have faith and not doubt, you? will do not only this of the fig tree, but even if you? should say to this mountain, ‘Be taken away and be cast into the sea,’ it will come to pass.

22 And all things, as many as you? might ask in prayer, believing, you? will receive.”

23 And on His having come into the temple teaching, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to Him, saying, “By what authority do You do these things?” And who gave You this authority?

24 And answering, Jesus said to them, “I will also ask you? one word, which if you? tell Me, I will also tell you? by what authority I do these things.

25 From where was the baptism of John? From heaven or from men?” And they were reasoning among themselves, saying, “If we should say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say to us, ‘Why then did you? not believe him?’