Matthew 21
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Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King
1As they approached Jerusalem, they came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives. Jesus sent out two disciples, 2telling them, “Go to the village ahead of you. As soon as you get there, you’ll find a donkey tied up, with her colt next to her. Untie them and bring them to me. 3If anyone says anything to you, tell them, ‘The Lord needs them.’ The owner will send them right away.”
4This happened to make the words of the prophet come true:
5“Say to the city of Zion,
‘See, your king is coming to you,
gentle and riding on a donkey,
riding on a donkey’s colt.’ ”
6The disciples went and did what Jesus had told them to do. 7They brought the donkey and the colt and placed their coats on them for Jesus to sit on. 8A very large crowd spread their coats on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread those on the road. 9Some of the people went ahead of him, and some followed behind, and they all shouted,
“Hosanna to the Son of David!”
“Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!”
“Hosanna in the highest heaven!”
10When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up. The people asked, “Who is this?”
11The crowds answered, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”
Jesus Clears Out the Temple
12Jesus entered the temple courtyard and began to drive out all those who were buying and selling there. He turned over the tables of the people who exchanged money and the benches of those who sold doves. 13“It is written,” he told them, “ ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’ ”
14People who were blind and disabled came to Jesus at the temple, and he healed them. 15The chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he was doing, and they heard the children in the temple courtyard shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” This made them angry.
16“Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him.
“Yes,” replied Jesus. “Haven’t you ever read about it in Scripture? It says,
“ ‘Even from children and infants,
Lord, you will receive praise.’ ”
17Then Jesus left them and went out of the city to spend the night in Bethany.
Jesus Makes a Fig Tree Dry Up
18Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back into Jerusalem, he was hungry. 19He saw a fig tree by the road and went up to it, but he didn’t find anything on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Right away the tree dried up.
20When the disciples saw this, they were amazed. “How did the fig tree dry up so quickly?” they asked.
21Jesus answered, “Truly I tell you, if you have faith and don’t doubt, you can do what was done to the fig tree. You can even say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and it will be done. 22If you believe, you will receive what you ask for when you pray.”
The Authority of Jesus Is Questioned
23Jesus went into the temple courtyard and started teaching there. The chief priests and elders of the people came up to him and asked, “By what authority are you doing these things? Who gave you this authority?”
24Jesus answered, “I’ll ask you a question too. If you answer me, I’ll tell you by what authority I’m doing these things. 25Where did John’s baptism come from? Was it from heaven, or was he acting on human authority?”
They talked this over among themselves and realized, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he’ll ask, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’ 26But if we say, ‘On human authority,’ who knows what the people might do to us? They all believe that John was a prophet.”
27So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.”
Jesus replied, “Then I won’t tell you by what authority I’m doing these things either.”
The Story of the Two Sons
28“What do you think about this? A certain man had two sons. He went to the first one and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’
29“ ‘I won’t,’ the son answered. But later he changed his mind and went.
30“Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. That son answered, ‘I will, sir.’ But he didn’t go.
31“Which of the two sons did what his father wanted?”
“The first,” they answered.
Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, tax collectors and prostitutes will enter the kingdom of God ahead of you. 32John came to show you the right way, and you didn’t believe him. But the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. Even when you saw that, you didn’t turn away from your sins and believe him.
The Story of the Renters
33“Listen to another story. A certain man owned some land and planted a vineyard on it. He put up a wall around it, dug a pit for a winepress, and built a lookout tower. Then he rented the vineyard out to some farmers and moved to another place. 34When harvest time came, he sent his slaves to the renters to collect his share of the fruit.
35“But the renters mistreated his slaves. They beat one of them, killed another, and threw stones at a third. 36Then the man sent a larger group of slaves to the renters, but they treated them the same way. 37So finally, he sent his son to them, thinking, ‘They will respect my son.’
38“But when the renters saw the son coming, they said to one another, ‘He’s supposed to inherit all the owner’s property someday. Come on, let’s kill him, and then everything will be ours.’ 39So they grabbed him and dragged him out of the vineyard and killed him.
40“What will the owner of the vineyard come and do to those renters?”
41“He’ll make those cruel men suffer a cruel death,” they replied. “Then he’ll rent the vineyard out to other renters who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.”
42Jesus said to them, “Haven’t you ever read this in the Scriptures?
“ ‘The stone the builders wouldn’t accept
has become the most important stone of all.
The Lord has done this,
and it’s wonderful in our eyes.’
43“So I tell you that the kingdom of God is going to be taken away from you and given to people who will produce its fruit. 44Anyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and the stone will crush anyone it falls on.”
45When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus’ stories, they knew he was talking about them. 46They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd, because the people believed that Jesus was a prophet.
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Matthew 21
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1They drew near to Yerushalayim [abode of peace] and came to Bethpage on the Mount of Olives, and Yeshua [God is Salvation] sent two of his disciples.
2He said unto them: “Go into the fortress which is opposite you and immediately you will find a she-ass and her colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me”.
3“If a man should say anything to you, tell him the Master has need of them and immediately he will let them go.”
4All this was to fulfill the word of the prophet saying:
5“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, shout, O daughter of Yerushalayim [abode of peace]; behold, thy King cometh unto thee, he is triumphant, and victorious, humble, and riding upon a she-ass, even upon a colt the foal of a she-ass”.
6They went and did as Yeshua [God is Salvation] commanded them.
7They brought the she-ass and the colt, and when the others had placed their garments and clothes upon them, Yeshua [God is Salvation] rode upon them. Then they made the ascent.
8Many of the crowd spread out their garments in the road, and others cut branches from trees and cast them before him and behind him,
9calling out saying: “Please! Deliver us! [Hoshi-annah] in the Highest. Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) is He who comes in the name of Yehovah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate]. Please! Deliver us! [Hoshi-annah] in the Highest”
10It came to pass afterwards, when Yeshua [God is Salvation] entered Yerushalayim [abode of peace], all the city was moved saying: ‘Who is this?’
11The people said to one another: ‘Yeshua [God is Salvation] the Prophet from Natzeret [separated] which is in Galil [circuit]’.
12Yeshua [God is Salvation] entered the house of Yehovah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] and found there those who buy and sell. He overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those who were selling doves.
13He said unto them: “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations, but you have made it a cave of thieves’”.
14Then the blind and lame came to him in the temple and he healed them.
15The chief priests and the Torah-teachers (Scribes) came to see the wonders which he did. The young children were calling out in the temple saying: “Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) is He who comes in The Name of Yehovah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate], the King of Y’sra’el [he who holds onto the heal of God], the Son of The Mighty One”. The Torah-teachers (Scribes) deceived
16and said to Him: ‘Have you not heard what these are saying?’ He answered them and said: “I heard them. Have you not read: ‘From the mouth of children and babes You have established strength’?”
17He left and went out to Beit-Anyah [house of figs] and spent the night there and there he was explaining to them the Kingdom of Elohim (The Many Powered) [The Living Word of God].
18It came to pass in the morning that he returned to the city hungry.
19He saw a fig tree near the road and drew near to it but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it: “May fruit never come forth from you”. Immediately the fig tree dried up.
20The disciples saw, were amazed, and said: ‘How is it the fig tree dried up immediately?’
21Yeshua [God is Salvation] answered and said to them: “If you have faith without doubt, not only to the fig tree will you do, but should you say to this mountain that it should depart and go into the sea, it will be done”
22“Everything which you shall ask in prayer while believing, you will receive”.
23He went into the temple to teach and there came unto him the Torah-teachers (Scribes), the priests and the rulers of the people saying: ‘By what power do you do this and who gave you this strength?’
24Yeshua [God is Salvation] answered them and said to them: “I also will ask you a question and if you tell me I also will tell you by what power I work”.
25“The baptism of Yochanan [Yah is gracious] from where was it, from heaven or from men?”. They grieved among themselves saying: ‘What will we say. If we say from heaven, he will say to us: Why did you not believe him?’
26‘If we say from men, we fear the crowd because all of them believe Yochanan [Yah is gracious] was a prophet.’
27So they said: ‘We do not know’. He said: “Also, I will not tell you by what power I work”
28“What is your opinion? A certain man had two sons; he approached one and said to him: ‘Go my son today to work in my vineyard’.
29“He said to him: ‘I do not wish to’. But afterward he repented and went”.
30“He said to the other likewise and he answered him: ‘Here I am, Sir’, but he did not go”.
31“Which of the two did the will of the father?” They said to him: ‘The first’. Yeshua [God is Salvation] said to them: “Truly I say to you, tax collectors and harlots will precede you into the Kingdom of heaven,
32“because Yochanan [Yah is gracious] came to you in the Way of righteousness and you did not believe him. But tax collectors and harlots believed him and you saw it and did not turn in repentance. Also afterward you did not repent to believe him. To the one who has ears to hear let him hear in disgrace.”
33At that time Yeshua [God is Salvation] said to his disciples and to a company of the Jews: “Hear now the parable of the sower. A certain honorable man planted a vineyard, walled it up on every side, built a tower in its midst, and also dug a vat in it, entrusted it to servants, and went on his way”.
34“It came to pass at the time of the gathering of the produce, he sent his servants to those who were working to receive his produce”.
35“But the workers took his servants, struck the first, killed the second, and the third they stoned with stones”.
36“Again he sent many more servants than the first and they did to them likewise”.
37“Finally, he sent them his son saying: ‘They will honour my son’”.
38“The workers saw his son and said to one another: ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and we will inherit his estate’.
39“So they took him, cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him”.
40“Now, when the Adon [Lord - Kurios of the earth] of the vineyard comes what will he do to them?”
41They answered him saying: “As for the wicked he will destroy them in misery and his vineyard he will give to other workers who will immediately give to him the portion of his produce.”
42Yeshua [God is Salvation] said to them: “Have you not read the scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected is become the head of the corner; This was from Yehovah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate]; it is a marvel in our eyes’”.
43“Therefore I say to you the Kingdom of heaven will be torn from you and given to a nation producing fruit”.
44“He who falls upon this stone will be cast down; he who falls upon it will be broken apart.”
45The chief priests and the P’rushim (Pharisees) [separatists] heard his parables and understood that he was speaking in regard to them.
46They sought to kill him but they feared the crowds to whom he was a Prophet.
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