lont - 21

lont@Matthew:21:1 @ When they were nigh Jerusalem, being come to Bethphage, near the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples,

lont@Matthew:21:2 @ saying,

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lont@Matthew:21:4 @ Now all this was done, that the words of the Prophet might be fulfilled,

lont@Matthew:21:5 @ «Say to the daughters of Zion, behold your King comes to you lowly, riding on an ass, even the colt of a laboring beast.»

lont@Matthew:21:6 @ Accordingly the disciples went, and having done as Jesus had commanded them,

lont@Matthew:21:7 @ brought the ass and the colt, and covering them with their mantles, made him ride.

lont@Matthew:21:8 @ Now the greater part spread their mantles in the way; others lopped branches off the trees, and strowed them in the way,

lont@Matthew:21:9 @ while the crowd that went before and that followed, shouted, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed be he that comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven!

lont@Matthew:21:10 @ When he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in an uproar, everybody asking, Who is this?

lont@Matthew:21:11 @ The crowd answered, It is Jesus, the prophet of Nazareth, in Galilee.

lont@Matthew:21:12 @ Then Jesus went into the temple of God, and drove thence all who sold and who brought in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money-changers, and the stalls of those who sold doves,

lont@Matthew:21:13 @ «and said to them, »

lont@Matthew:21:14 @ Then the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

lont@Matthew:21:15 @ But the chief priests and the scribes, seeing the wonders which he performed, and the boys crying in the temple, Hosanna to the Son of David,

lont@Matthew:21:16 @ «said to him with indignation, Do you hear what these say? Jesus answered, »

lont@Matthew:21:17 @ And leaving them, he went out of the city of Bethany, where he remained that night.

lont@Matthew:21:18 @ Returning to the city in the morning, he was hungry,

lont@Matthew:21:19 @ and seeing a single fig tree by the road, he went to it; but finding only leaves on it, said, And the fig tree withered forthwith.

lont@Matthew:21:20 @ When the disciples saw it, they said with astonishment, how soon is the fig tree withered?

lont@Matthew:21:21 @ Jesus answered,

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lont@Matthew:21:23 @ Being come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came near, as he was teaching, and said, by what authority do you these things?

lont@Matthew:21:24 @ Jesus answering, said to them,

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lont@Matthew:21:26 @ And if we say, From men, we dread the multitude, amongst whom John is universally accounted a prophet.

lont@Matthew:21:27 @ They, therefore, answered him, We can not tell. Jesus replied,

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lont@Matthew:21:31 @ They said, The first. Jesus replied,

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lont@Matthew:21:41 @ They answered, He will put those wretched to a wretched death, and will let the vineyard to others, who will render him the fruits in the season.

lont@Matthew:21:42 @ «Jesus replied, »

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lont@Matthew:21:45 @ The chief priests and the Pharisees hearing his parables, perceived that he spoke of them;

lont@Matthew:21:46 @ but though they wished to lay hold on him, they were afraid of the populace, who reckoned him a prophet.

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