ULT MAT Chapter 21

21 And when they came near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied up, and a colt with her. Having untied them, bring them to me. 3 And if anyone says anything to you, you will say, ‘The Lord has need of them,’ and immediately he will send them.” 4 Now this happened so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled, saying,

5 “Tell the daughter of Zion,

‘Behold, your King is coming to you,

humble and riding on a donkey,

and on a colt, a son of a beast of burden.’”

6 Now the disciples, having gone and having done just as Jesus had directed them, 7 brought the donkey and the colt and put their cloaks on them, and he sat upon them. 8 Now the largest crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and were spreading them on the road. 9 Now the crowds going before him and following were crying out, saying,

“Hosanna to the Son of David!

Blessed is the one coming in the name of the Lord!

Hosanna in the highest!”

10 And when he had entered into Jerusalem, the whole city was shaken, saying, “Who is this?” 11 And the crowds were saying, “This is Jesus the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee.”

12 And Jesus entered into the temple and cast out all the ones selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of the ones selling the doves. 13 And he says to them, “It has been written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a ‘den of robbers.’” 14 And the blind and the lame approached him in the temple, and he healed them. 15 But the chief priests and the scribes, having seen the marvelous things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” became very angry. 16 And they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” But Jesus says to them, “Yes! Have you never read, ‘From the mouths of little children and nursing infants you have prepared praise’?” 17 And having left them, he went out from the city to Bethany and spent the night there.

18 Now in the morning, returning to the city, he was hungry. 19 And having seen one fig tree along the road, he went to it and found nothing on it except leaves only. And he says to it, “May there no longer be fruit from you to eternity,” and immediately the fig tree withered. 20 And having seen this, the disciples marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree immediately wither?” 21 But answering, Jesus said to them, “Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was of the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and be thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. 22 And everything, as much as you request in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

23 And when he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people approached him teaching, saying, “By what authority do you do these things, and who gave you this authority?” 24 But answering, Jesus said to them, “I also will ask you one word, which if you tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things. 25 The baptism of John—from where was it? From heaven or from men?” But they were reasoning among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘For what reason then did you not believe him?’ 26 But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the crowd, for they all regard John as a prophet.” 27 And answering Jesus, they said, “We do not know.” He also said to them, “Nor do I tell you by what authority I do these things. 28 But what do you think? A man had two children, and having approached the first, he said, ‘Child, go, work today in the vineyard.’ 29 But he, answering, said, ‘I will not,’ but afterward, having changed his mind, he went. 30 But having approached the other, he said likewise. And he, answering, said, ‘I will, lord,’ but he did not go. 31 Which of the two did the will of his father?” They say, “The first.” Jesus says to them, “Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes enter into the kingdom of God before you. 32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, but you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. But you, having seen this, did not change your minds afterward to believe in him.

33 Listen to another parable. There was a man, a master of a house, who planted a vineyard and put a hedge around it and dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower and rented it out to farmers and went abroad. 34 Now when the time of the fruits came near, he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruits. 35 But the farmers, having seized his servants, beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again, he sent other servants, more than the first, but they did to them likewise. 37 But afterward, he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38 But the farmers, having seen the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’ 39 And having seized him, they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 40 Therefore, when the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?” 41 They say to him, “He will severely destroy those evil ones, and he will rent out the vineyard to other farmers who will repay him the fruits in their times.” 42 Jesus says to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures,

‘A stone that the builders rejected,

this has become the head of the corner.

This came about from the Lord,

and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

43 For this reason I say to you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and will be given to a nation producing its fruits. 44 And the one having fallen on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it falls, it will crush him.”[fn] 45 And the chief priests and the Pharisees, having heard his parables, knew that he is speaking about them. 46 And seeking to seize him, they feared the crowds, because they were regarding him as a prophet.

Some ancient manuscripts do not include this verse.

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