Matthew 21

1 And when they drew nigh to Jerusalem and were come to Bethphage at the mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying unto them, and bring them to me:} 3 say any to you, tell 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 upon them. 8 And great numbers spread their garments in the way, and others cut 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 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 temple, and threw down the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold doves: 13 and said to them, 14 And there came to Him in the temple blind and lame, and He healed them: 15 but when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonders that He wrought, and the children crying out in the temple, Hosanna to the Son of David, they were vexed to the heart, and said to Him, Dost thou hear what these say? 16 And Jesus saith unto them, 17 And He left them and went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there. 18 Now in the morning as He was returning to the city, He was hungry; 19 and seeing a fig-tree by the way, He went to it, and finding nothing upon it but leaves, He saith to it, and the fig-tree withered immediately. 20 And the disciples seeing were amazed and said, How suddenly is the fig-tree withered! 21 but Jesus answering said unto them, do this to a fig-tree, but also if ye shall say to this mountain, “Be thou removed and cast into the sea,” it shall be done.} 22 whatsoever ye ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.} 23 And when He was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to Him as He was teaching, and said, By what authority dost thou these and who gave thee this authority? 24 but Jesus answered them, } 26 But if we say, of men, we fear the people, for all esteem John as a prophet. 27 And in answer to Jesus, they said, We do not know: and He said unto them, } 28 ? a man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, Son, go, work to day in my vineyard:} 31 which of the two did the will of father?} They say unto Him, The first. Jesus replied, 32 ye did not repent afterwards, to believe him.} 36 he sent again other servants more than the first: and they did the like to them.} 41 They answer, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out the vineyard to other husbandmen, who will render him the fruits in their seasons. 42 saith Jesus to them, 45 And when the chief priests and pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that He spake of them: 46 and would have seized Him, but that they were afraid of the people; because they took Him for a prophet.