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New Testament
Mark 11
Jesus' Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalem
111As they approached Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, on the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples 2and told them, “Go into the village ahead of you. As soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here. 3If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it, and he will send it back here without delay.’”
4They left and found a colt on the street, tied at a door; and they untied it. 5Some who were standing there asked them, “What are you doing, untying that colt?” 6The disciples answered them just as Jesus had instructed them, and the men let them go.
7They brought the colt to Jesus, threw their garments on it, and Jesus sat on it. 8Many people spread their garments on the road. Others spread branches that they had cut from the fields. 9Those who went in front and those who followed were crying out,
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
10Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!
Hosanna in the highest!
11Jesus went into the temple courts in Jerusalem and looked around at everything. Since it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the Twelve.
Jesus Curses a Fig Tree
12The next day, after they had set out from Bethany, Jesus was hungry. 13When he saw a fig tree in leaf in the distance, he went to see if he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, since it was not the season for figs. 14Jesus said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” And his disciples were listening.
Jesus Cleanses His Father's House
15They came to Jerusalem. Jesus went into the temple area and began to drive out those who were selling and buying in the temple courts. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who were selling doves. 16He would not allow anyone to carry any merchandise through the temple courts. 17He began to teach them: “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’?[] But you have made it ‘a den of robbers!’”[]
18The chief priests and the experts in the law heard this and were looking for a way to kill him. Indeed they were afraid of him, because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.
19When evening came, Jesus and his disciples would leave the city.
The Withered Fig Tree
20As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered down to the roots. 21Peter remembered and said, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.”
22Jesus replied, “Have faith in God. 23Amen I tell you: Whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. 24Therefore I tell you, everything that you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. 25Whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins. 26But if you do not forgive, your Father in heaven will not forgive your sins.”[]
Jesus' Authority Is Questioned
27They went into Jerusalem again. As he was walking in the temple courts, the chief priests, the experts in the law, and the elders came to him. 28They asked him, “By what authority are you doing these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?”
29Jesus replied, “I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. 30The baptism of John—was it from heaven or from men? Answer me.”
31They discussed this with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’ 32But if we say, ‘From men’…” (They feared the crowd, because everybody held that John really was a prophet.) 33So they answered Jesus, “We don't know.”
Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”
Footnotes
- 11:9 Hosanna means save us or help us, we pray.
- 11:17 Isaiah 56:7
- 11:17 Jeremiah 7:11
- 11:26 A few witnesses to the text do not include verse 26.