When they came near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
and said to them, “Go into the village over against you. Immediately as you enter it, you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it, and bring it.
If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it,’ and immediately he will send it here.”
They went away, and found a colt tied at the door, outside in the street, and they untied it.
Some of those who stood there said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?”
They answered them just as Jesus had commanded. They let them go.
They brought the colt to Jesus, and threw their clothes on it. He sat on it.
Many spread their clothes in the way. Others spread branches, which they had cut from the fields.
Those who went before, and those who followed, cried out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!”
Jesus entered Jerusalem, and went into the temple. He looked around at everything. As it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
On the next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry.
Seeing from afar a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he would find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing except leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
He said to it, “May no one eat fruit from you ever again!” His disciples heard it.
They came to Jerusalem. He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who sold and bought in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers, and the seats of those who sold doves.
He wouldn’t allow anyone to carry anything through the temple.
He taught, saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a den of thieves.”
The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him, for they feared him; for all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.
When evening came, Jesus went out of the city.
Early in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots.
Peter remembered, and said to him, “Rabbi, see! The fig tree which you cursed is withered.”
Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.
Most certainly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
Therefore I tell you, whatever things you ask for when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father who is in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.”
They came again to Jerusalem. As he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came to him,
and said to him, “By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority to do these things?”
Jesus answered them, “I will also ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.
Was the baptism of John from heaven, or from men? Answer me.”
They reasoned with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why then didn’t you believe him?’
But if we say, ‘From men’—” They feared the multitude, for everyone regarded John as a prophet.
They answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
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