Matthew 21:1–27

¹And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, unto the mount of the Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, ²saying to them, ‘Go on to the village over-against you, and immediately ye shall find an ass bound, and a colt with her—having loosed, bring ye to me; ³and if any one may say anything to you, ye shall say, that the lord hath need of them, and immediately he will send them.’ ⁴And all this came to pass, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying, ⁵‘Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Lo, thy king doth come to thee, meek, and mounted on an ass, and a colt, a foal of a beast of burden.’ ⁶And the disciples having gone and having done as Jesus commanded them, ⁷brought the ass and the colt, and did put on them their garments, and set him upon them; ⁸and the very great multitude spread their own garments in the way, and others were cutting branches from the trees, and were strewing in the way, ⁹and the multitudes who were going before, and who were following, were crying, saying, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David, blessed is he who is coming in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.’ ¹⁰And he having entered into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, ‘Who is this?’ ¹¹And the multitudes said, ‘This is Jesus the prophet, who is from Nazareth of Galilee.’

¹²And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and did cast forth all those selling and buying in the temple, and the tables of the money-changers he overturned, and the seats of those selling the doves, ¹³and he saith to them, ‘It hath been written, My house a house of prayer shall be called, but ye did make it a den of robbers.’ ¹⁴And there came to him blind and lame men in the temple, and he healed them, ¹⁵and the chief priests and the scribes having seen the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David,’ were much displeased; ¹⁶and they said to him, ‘Hearest thou what these say?’ And Jesus saith to them, ‘Yes, did ye never read, that, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou didst prepare praise?’ ¹⁷And having left them, he went forth out of the city to Bethany, and did lodge there.

¹⁸And in the morning turning back to the city, he hungered, ¹⁹and having seen a certain fig-tree on the way, he came to it, and found nothing in it except leaves only, and he saith to it, ‘No more from thee may fruit be—to the age;’ and forthwith the fig-tree withered. ²⁰And the disciples having seen, did wonder, saying, ‘How did the fig-tree forthwith wither?’ ²¹And Jesus answering said to them, ‘Verily I say to you, If ye may have faith, and may not doubt, not only this of the fig-tree shall ye do, but even if to this mount ye may say, Be lifted up and be cast into the sea, it shall come to pass; ²²and all—as much as ye may ask in the prayer, believing, ye shall receive.’

²³And he having come to the temple, there came to him when teaching the chief priests and the elders of the people, saying, ‘By what authority dost thou do these things? and who gave thee this authority?’ ²⁴And Jesus answering said to them, ‘I will ask you—I also—one word, which if ye may tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things; ²⁵the baptism of John, whence was it?—from heaven, or from men?’ And they were reasoning with themselves, saying, ‘If we should say, From heaven; he will say to us, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him? ²⁶and if we should say, From men, we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.’ ²⁷And answering Jesus they said, ‘We have not known.’ He said to them—he also—‘Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.