1 - And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, unto the mount of the Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,
2 - saying 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;
3 - and if any one may say anything to you, ye shall say, that the lord hath need of them, and immediately he will send them.'
4 - And 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.'
6 - And the disciples having gone and having done as Jesus commanded them,
7 - brought the ass and the colt, and did put on them their garments, and set <FI>him<Fi> upon them;
8 - and 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,
9 - and 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.'
10 - And he having entered into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, `Who is this?'
11 - And the multitudes said, `This is Jesus the prophet, who <FI>is<Fi> from Nazareth of Galilee.'
12 - And 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,
13 - and 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.'
14 - And there came to him blind and lame men in the temple, and he healed them,
15 - and 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;
16 - and 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?'
17 - And having left them, he went forth out of the city to Bethany, and did lodge there,
18 - and in the morning turning back to the city, he hungered,
19 - and 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.
20 - And the disciples having seen, did wonder, saying, `How did the fig-tree forthwith wither?'
21 - And 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;
22 - and all--as much as ye may ask in the prayer, believing, ye shall receive.'
23 - And 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?'
24 - And 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;
25 - the 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?
26 - and if we should say, From men, we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.'
27 - And 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.
28 - `And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.'
29 - And he answering said, `I will not,' but at last, having repented, he went.
30 - `And having come to the second, he said in the same manner, and he answering said, I <FI>go<Fi> , sir, and went not;
31 - which of the two did the will of the father?' They say to him, `The first.' Jesus saith to them, `Verily I say to you, that the tax-gatherers and the harlots do go before you into the reign of God,
32 - for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last--to believe him.
33 - `Hear ye another simile: There was a certain man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and did put a hedge round it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.
34 - `And when the season of the fruits came nigh, he sent his servants unto the husbandmen, to receive the fruits of it,
35 - and the husbandmen having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned.
36 - `Again he sent other servants more than the first, and they did to them in the same manner.
37 - `And at last he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son;
38 - and the husbandmen having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and may possess his inheritance;
39 - and having taken him, they cast <FI>him<Fi> out of the vineyard, and killed him;
40 - whenever therefore the lord of the vineyard may come, what will he do to these husbandmen?'
41 - They say to him, `Evil men--he will evilly destroy them, and the vineyard will give out to other husbandmen, who will give back to him the fruits in their seasons.'
42 - Jesus saith to them, `Did ye never read in the Writings, A stone that the builders disallowed, it became head of a corner; from the Lord hath this come to pass, and it is wonderful in our eyes.
43 - `Because of this I say to you, that the reign of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth its fruit;
44 - and he who is falling on this stone shall be broken, and on whomsoever it may fall it will crush him to pieces.'
45 - And the chief priests and the Pharisees having heard his similes, knew that of them he speaketh,
46 - and seeking to lay hold on him, they feared the multitudes, seeing they were holding him as a prophet.
