1 qFor ver. 1-9, see Mark 11:1-10; Luke 19:29-38; John 12:12-15 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, torch. 24:3; 26:30; Zech. 14:4; [John 8:1]; [Acts 1:12] the Mount of Olives, then Jesuss[Mark 14:13] sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them, ’ and he will send them at once. ” 4 This took placetSee ch. 1:22 to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying,
5 uCited from Zech. 9:9; [Isa. 62:11] “Say to the daughter of Zion,
‘Behold, your king is coming to you,
vch. 11:29 humble, and mounted on a donkey,
and1Or even on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden. ’ ”
6 The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. 7 They brought the donkey and the colt and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them. 8 Most of the crowdw2 Kgs. 9:13 spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9 And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting,x[Rev. 7:10]; See Ps. 118:25 (Heb.) “Hosanna toych. 20:30 the Son of David!zch. 23:39; Cited from Ps. 118:26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! HosannaaLuke 2:14; [Ps. 148:1] in the highest! ” 10 AndbMark 11:11 when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this? ” 11 And the crowds said, “This iscver. 46; Luke 7:16; 13:33; 24:19; John 4:19; 6:14; 7:40; 9:17; [Mark 6:15; Luke 9:8, 19; John 1:21] the prophet Jesus,dSee ch. 2:23 from Nazareth of Galilee. ”
12 eFor ver. 12-16, see Mark 11:15-18; Luke 19:45-47; [John 2:14-16] And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables off[Ex. 30:13] the money-changers and the seats of those who soldgLev. 1:14; 5:7; 12:8; Luke 2:24 pigeons. 13 He said to them, “It is written,hCited from Isa. 56:7 ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer, ’ butiJer. 7:11 you make it a den of robbers. ”
14 jch. 11:5; 15:31 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
15 k[Luke 19:39, 40] But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple,x[See ver. 9 above] “Hosanna to the Son of David! ” they were indignant,
16 and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying? ” And Jesus said to them, “Yes;lver. 42; ch. 12:3, 5; 19:4; 22:31 have you never read,
mCited from Ps. 8:2 (Gk.) ‘Out of the mouth ofnch. 11:25 infants and nursing babies
you have prepared praise ’? ”
17 Andoch. 16:4 leaving them, hepMark 11:19; [Luke 21:37] went out of the city toqMark 11:1; Luke 19:29; 24:50; John 11:18 Bethany and lodged there.
18 rFor ver. 18-22, see Mark 11:12-14, 20-24 In the morning, as he was returning to the city,sch. 4:2 he became hungry. 19 t[Luke 13:6-9] And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again! ” And the fig tree withered at once.
20 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither at once? ” 21 And Jesus answered them, uch. 17:20 “Truly, I say to you,v[John 14:12] if you have faith andwActs 10:20; Rom. 4:20; 14:23; James 1:6 do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain,x[Ps. 46:2; 1 Cor. 13:2; Rev. 8:8] ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea, ’ it will happen. 22 Andv[See ver. 21 above] whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive,ySee ch. 7:7 if you have faith. ”
23 zFor ver. 23-27, see Mark 11:27-33; Luke 20:1-8 And when he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to himaSee ch. 26:55 as he was teaching, and said,b[Ex. 2:14; John 1:25; Acts 4:7] “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority? ” 24 Jesus answered them, “I also will ask you one question, and if you tell me the answer, then I also will tell you by what authority I do these things. 25 The baptism of John,c[ch. 13:54] from where did it come?dLuke 15:18, 21; John 3:27 From heaven or from man? ” And they discussed it among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven, ’ he will say to us,ever. 32; Luke 7:30 ‘Why then did you not believe him? ’ 26 But if we say, ‘From man, ’fver. 46; ch. 14:5 we are afraid of the crowd, for they all hold that John wasg[John 5:35]; See ch. 11:9 a prophet. ” 27 So they answered Jesus, “We do not know. ” And he said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.
28 hch. 17:25; 18:12 What do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work iniver. 33; ch. 20:1 the vineyard today. ’ 29 And he answered, ‘I will not, ’ but afterward hejver. 32; ch. 27:3; Heb. 7:21 changed his mind and went. 30 And he went to the other son and said the same. And he answered, ‘I go, sir, ’ but did not go. 31 Which of the two did the will of his father? ” They said, “The first. ” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you,kLuke 7:29 the tax collectors andlLuke 7:37-50 the prostitutes go intomSee ch. 12:28 the kingdom of God before you. 32 For John came to youn[ch. 3:8-12, 15; Prov. 8:20; 2 Pet. 2:21] in the way of righteousness, andover. 25; ch. 11:18 you did not believe him, butpLuke 3:12, 13 the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterwardj[See ver. 29 above] change your minds and believe him.
33 qFor ver. 33-46, see Mark 12:1-12; Luke 20:9-19 Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who plantedrver. 28; Ps. 80:8; Isa. 5:1 a vineyardsIsa. 5:2 and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower andtSong 8:11, 12 leased it to tenants, anduch. 25:14, 15; [Mark 13:34] went into another country. 34 When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenantst[See ver. 33 above] to get his fruit. 35 vch. 5:12; 22:6; 23:34, 37; [2 Chr. 24:19; 36:15, 16; Neh. 9:26; Jer. 37:15; 38:6; Acts 7:52; 2 Cor. 11:24-26; 1 Thess. 2:15; Heb. 11:36, 37] And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, andw[2 Chr. 24:21; John 10:31-33; Acts 7:59] stoned another. 36 xch. 22:4 Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them. 37 Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son. ’ 38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves,yHeb. 1:2; [John 1:11; Rom. 8:17] ‘This is the heir. Come,z[1 Kgs. 21:19] let us kill him and have his inheritance. ’ 39 And they took him andaHeb. 13:12 threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 40 b[ch. 24:50; 25:19] When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants? ” 41 They said to him,cLuke 19:27 “He will put those wretches to a miserable death anddver. 43; Acts 13:46; 18:6; 28:28; [ch. 8:11, 12] let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons. ”
42 Jesus said to them, ever. 16 “Have you never read in the Scriptures:
fActs 4:11; 1 Pet. 2:7; Cited from Ps. 118:22, 23 ‘The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
this was the Lord's doing,
and it is marvelous in our eyes ’?
43 Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of Godg[Luke 14:24] will be taken away from you and given to a peopleh[ch. 3:10; Isa. 5:4, 7] producing its fruits. 44 AndiIsa. 8:14, 15; Rom. 9:32, 33; 1 Pet. 2:8 the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; andjDan. 2:34, 35, 44, 45 when it falls on anyone, it will crush him. ”
45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them. 46 AndlMark 11:18; Luke 19:47, 48; John 7:25, 30, 44; [ch. 26:4] although they were seeking to arrest him,mver. 26 they feared the crowds, because they held him to ben[ver. 11] a prophet.