Verse 1 When they drew near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, Verse 2 saying to them, "Go into the village that is opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them, and bring them to me. Verse 3 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, 'The Lord needs them,' and immediately he will send them." Verse 4 This took place that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, Verse 5 "Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey." Verse 6 The disciples went, and did just as Jesus directed them, Verse 7 and brought the donkey and the colt, and placed their clothes on them; and he sat on them. Verse 8 A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees, and spread them on the road. Verse 9 The multitudes who went before him, and who followed kept shouting, "Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!" Verse 10 When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, "Who is this?" Verse 11 The multitudes said, "This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee." Verse 12 Jesus entered into the temple, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers' tables and the seats of those who sold the doves. Verse 13 He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!" Verse 14 The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. Verse 15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the son of David!" they were indignant, Verse 16 and said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?'" Verse 17 He left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there. Verse 18 Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry. Verse 19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away. Verse 20 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree immediately wither away?" Verse 21 Jesus answered them, "Truly I tell you, if you have faith, and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it would be done. Verse 22 All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive." Verse 23 When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, "By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?" Verse 24 Jesus answered them, "I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things. Verse 25 The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from man?" They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?' Verse 26 But if we say, 'From man,' we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet." Verse 27 They answered Jesus, and said, "We do not know." He also said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things. Verse 28 But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, 'Son, go work today in the vineyard.' Verse 29 He answered, 'I will not,' but afterward he changed his mind, and went. Verse 30 He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, 'I go, sir,' but he did not go. Verse 31 Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Truly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you. Verse 32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you did not even repent afterward, that you might believe him. Verse 33 "Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went on a journey. Verse 34 When the season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit. Verse 35 The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Verse 36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way. Verse 37 But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, 'They will respect my son.' Verse 38 But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and seize his inheritance.' Verse 39 So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. Verse 40 When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?" Verse 41 They told him, "He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season." Verse 42 Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?' Verse 43 "Therefore I tell you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation bringing forth its fruit. Verse 44 He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust." Verse 45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them. Verse 46 When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.