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Untie them, and bring them to me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, 'The Lord needs them,' and immediately he will send them." <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>"Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The disciples went, and did just as Jesus commanded them, <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their clothes on them; and he sat on them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees, and spread them on the road.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The multitudes who went before him, and who followed kept shouting, "Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, "Who is this?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The multitudes said, "This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee."</p> <a name="12" id="12"></a><p class="hdg">Jesus Cleanses the Temple<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../mark/11.htm#15">Mark 11:15-19</a>; <a href="../luke/19.htm#45">Luke 19:45-48</a>; <a href="../john/2.htm#12">John 2:12-25</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers' tables and the seats of those who sold the doves. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!"</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the son of David!" they were indignant, <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?'" <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there.</p> <a name="18" id="18"></a><p class="hdg">The Barren Fig Tree<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../mark/11.htm#12">Mark 11:12-14</a>; <a href="../mark/11.htm#20">Mark 11:20-26</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree immediately wither away?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don't doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it would be done. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."</p> <a name="23" id="23"></a><p class="hdg">Jesus' Authority Challenged<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../mark/11.htm#27">Mark 11:27-33</a>; <a href="../luke/20.htm">Luke 20:1-8</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>When he had 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 do these things? Who gave you this authority?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, "I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?" They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?' <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>But if we say, 'From men,' we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet." <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>They answered Jesus, and said, "We don't know." He also said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.</p> <p class="hdg">The Parable of the Two Sons</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>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.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>He answered, 'I will not,' but afterward he changed his mind, and went. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, 'I go, sir,' but he didn't go. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to him, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn't believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn't even repent afterward, that you might believe him.</p> <a name="33" id="33"></a><p class="hdg">The Parable of the Wicked Tenants<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../mark/12.htm">Mark 12:1-12</a>; <a href="../luke/20.htm#9">Luke 20:9-18</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>"Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>When the season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, 'They will respect my son.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and seize his inheritance.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>They told him, "He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?'</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>"Therefore I tell you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation bringing forth its fruit. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whoever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/21-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. 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