Matthew

Now when they drew near Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

saying to them, "Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Loose them and bring them to Me."

"And if any man say ought to you, you shall say, The Lord has need of them; and immediately he will send them."

All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying,

"Tell you the daughter of Zion, Behold, your King comes to you, meek, and sitting upon a donkey, and a colt the foal of a donkey."

And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them,

And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon.

And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.

And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, "saying, Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest."

And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, "Who is this?"

And the multitude said, "This is Jesus the prophet of NazarS of Galilee."

Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.

And He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of thieves.'"

And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.

And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, "Hosanna to the son of David; they were sore displeased,"

Then they said to Him, "Do You hear what these are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes. Have you never read: 'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have perfected praise'?"

And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.

Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.

And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said to it, "Let no fruit grow on you henceforward for ever." And presently the fig tree withered away.

And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, "How soon is the fig tree withered away!"

Jesus answered and said to them, "Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' it will be done."

"And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."

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 do you these things? and who gave you this authority?"

And Jesus answered and said to them, "I also will ask you one thing, which if you tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things."

"The baptism of John, Where was it? from heaven, or of men?" And they reasoned among themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say to us, Why did you not then believe him?

But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.

And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said to them, "Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things."

"But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, 'Son, go, work today in my vineyard.'"

"He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went."

"And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not."

"Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to Him, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Assuredly, I say to you that tax collectors and harlots enter the kingdom of God before you."

"For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and you, when you had seen it, repented not afterward, that you might believe him."

"Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to farmers, and went into a far country:"

"And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, that they might receive the fruits of it."

"And the farmers took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another."

"Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did to them likewise."

"But last of all he sent to them his son, saying, They will reverence my son."

"But when the farmers saw the son, they said among themselves, "This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.""

"And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him."

"When the lord therefore of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?"

They say to him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard to other farmers, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the Scriptures: 'The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. This was the LORD’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes'?"

"Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it."

"And whoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder."

And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke of them.

But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.