Matthew:21

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* And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage , at the mount of Olives , then Jesus sent two disciples , * saying to them , Go into the village over against you , and immediately ye will find an ass tied , and a colt with it ; loose [them ] and lead [them ] to me . * And if any one say anything to you , ye shall say , The Lord has need of them , and straightway he will send them . * But all this came to pass , that that might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet , saying , * Say to the daughter of Zion , Behold thy King cometh to thee , meek , and mounted upon an ass , and upon a colt the foal of an ass . * But the disciples , having gone and done as Jesus had ordered them , * brought the ass and the colt and put their garments upon them , and he sat on them . * But a very great crowd strewed their own garments on the way , and others kept cutting down branches from the trees and strewing them on the way . * And the crowds who went before him and who followed cried , saying , Hosanna to the Son of David ; blessed [be ] he who comes in the name of [the ] Lord ; hosanna in the highest . * And as he entered into Jerusalem , the whole city was moved , saying , Who is this ? * And the crowds said , This is Jesus the prophet who is from Nazareth of Galilee . * And Jesus entered into the temple [of God ], and cast out all that sold and bought in the temple , and overthrew the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those that sold the doves . * And he says to them , It is written , My house shall be called a house of prayer , but ye have made it a den of robbers . * And blind and lame came to him in the temple , and he healed them . * And when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonders which he wrought , and the children crying in the temple and saying , Hosanna to the Son of David , they were indignant , * and said to him , Hearest thou what these say ? And Jesus says to them , Yea ; have ye never read , Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise ? * And leaving them he went forth out of the city to Bethany , and there he passed the night . * But early in the morning , as he came back into the city , he hungered . * And seeing one fig-tree in the way , he came to it and found on it nothing but leaves only . And he says to it , Let there be never more fruit of thee for ever . And the fig-tree was immediately dried up . * And when the disciples saw [it ], they wondered , saying , How immediately is the fig-tree dried up ! * And Jesus answering said to them , Verily I say unto you , If ye have faith , and do not doubt , not only shall ye do what [is done ] to the fig-tree , but even if ye should say to this mountain , Be thou taken away and be thou cast into the sea , it shall come to pass . * And all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer , believing , ye shall receive . * And when he came into the temple , the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him [as he was ] teaching , saying , By what authority doest thou these things ? and who gave thee this authority ? * And Jesus answering said to them , I also will ask you one thing , which if ye tell me , I also will tell you by what authority I do these things : * The baptism of John , whence was it ? of heaven or of men ? And they reasoned among themselves , saying , If we should say , Of heaven , he will say to us , Why then have ye not believed him ? * but if we should say , Of men , we fear the crowd , for all hold John for a prophet . * And answering Jesus they said , We do not know . He also said to them , Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things . * But what think ye ? A man had two children , and coming to the first he said , Child , go to-day , work in [my ] vineyard . * And he answering said , I will not ; but afterwards repenting himself he went . * And coming to the second he said likewise ; and he answering said , I [go ], sir , and went not . * Which of the two did the will of the father ? They say [to him ], The first . Jesus says to them , Verily I say unto you that the tax-gatherers and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you . * For John came to you in the way of righteousness , and ye believed him not ; but the tax-gatherers and the harlots believed him ; but ye when ye saw [it ] repented not yourselves afterwards to believe him . * Hear another parable : There was a householder who planted a vineyard , and made a fence round it , and dug a winepress in it , and built a tower , and let it out to husbandmen , and left the country . * But when the time of fruit drew near , he sent his bondmen to the husbandmen to receive his fruits . * And the husbandmen took his bondmen , and beat one , killed another , and stoned another . * Again he sent other bondmen more than the first , and they did to them in like manner . * And at last he sent to them his son , saying , They will have respect for my son . * But the husbandmen , seeing the son , said among themselves , This is the heir ; come , let us kill him and possess his inheritance . * And they took him , and cast him forth out of the vineyard , and killed him . * When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes , what shall he do to those husbandmen ? * They say to him , He will miserably destroy those evil [men ], and let out the vineyard to other husbandmen , who shall render him the fruits in their seasons . * Jesus says to them , Have ye never read in the scriptures , The stone which they that builded rejected , this has become the corner-stone : this is of [the ] Lord , and it is wonderful in our eyes ? * Therefore I say to you , that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and shall be given to a nation producing the fruits of it . * And he that falls on this stone shall be broken , but on whomsoever it shall fall , it shall grind him to powder . * And the chief priests and the Pharisees , having heard his parables , knew that he spoke about them . * And seeking to lay hold of him , they were afraid of the crowds , because they held him for a prophet .

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