Jesus' Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalem
211As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2telling them, “Go to the village ahead of you. Immediately you will find a donkey tied there along with her colt. Untie them and bring them to me. 3If anyone says anything to you, you are to say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.”
4This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet:
5Tell the daughter of Zion: Look, your King comes to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.[] 6The disciples went and did just as Jesus commanded them. 7They brought the donkey and the colt, laid their outer clothing on them, and he sat on it. 8A very large crowd spread their outer clothing on the road. Others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them out on the road. 9The crowds who went in front of him and those 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!
10When he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, asking, “Who is this?” 11And the crowds were saying, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”
Jesus Cleanses His Father's House
12Jesus entered the temple courts[] and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. 13He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’[] but you are making it a den of robbers!”[] 14The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15But when the chief priests and the experts in the law saw the wonders he performed and heard the children calling out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant. 16They said to him, “Do you hear what they are saying?”
“Yes,” Jesus told them, “Have you never read,
“From the lips of little children and nursing babies
you have prepared praise?”[] 17He left them, went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.
The Withered Fig Tree
18As he returned to the city early in the morning, he was hungry. 19Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, “May there never be fruit from you again!”
Immediately the fig tree withered away. 20When the disciples saw it, they were amazed and asked, “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?”
21Jesus answered them, “Amen 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 lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it would be done. 22Whatever you ask for in prayer, as you believe, you will receive.”
