Mark 11:1–20

THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY

11When^aj they approached Jerusalem,^ak at Bethphage and Bethany^al near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples ²and told them, “Go into the village ahead of you. As soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. ³If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here right away.’ ”

⁴So they went and found a colt outside in the street, tied by a door. They untied it, ⁵and some of those standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” ⁶They answered them just as Jesus had said; so they let them go.

⁷They brought the colt to Jesus and threw their clothes on it, and he sat on it. ⁸Many people spread their clothes on the road,^am and others spread leafy branches cut from the fields.^{A 9}Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted:

Hosanna!

Blessed is he who comes

in the name^an of the Lord!^Bap

¹⁰Blessed is the coming kingdom^aq

of our father David!^ar

Hosanna^as in the highest heaven!

¹¹He went into Jerusalem^at and into the temple.^au After looking around at everything, since it was already late, he went out to Bethany^av with the Twelve.

THE BARREN FIG TREE IS CURSED

¹²The^aw next day when they went out from Bethany, he was hungry. ¹³Seeing in the distance a fig^ax tree with leaves, he went to find out if there was anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for it was not the season for figs. ¹⁴He said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit^ay from you again!”^az And his disciples^ba heard it.

CLEANSING THE TEMPLE

¹⁵They came to Jerusalem,^bb and he went into the temple^bc and began to throw out those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money changers^bd and the chairs of those selling doves, ¹⁶and would not permit anyone to carry goods through the temple. ¹⁷He was teaching them: “Is it not written,^be My house^bf will be called a house of prayer^bg for all nations?^C But you have made it a den of thieves!”^Dbh

¹⁸The chief priests and the scribes^a heard it and started looking for a way to kill him. For they were afraid^b of him, because the whole crowd was astonished by his teaching.

¹⁹Whenever evening came, they would go out of the city.

THE BARREN FIG TREE IS WITHERED

²⁰Early^c in the morning, as they were passing by, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots up.