AND when they drew nigh to Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto
mount Olivet, then Jesus sent two disciples,
2 Saying to them: Go ye into the village that is over against you, and
immediately you shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them
and bring them to me.
3 And if any man shall say anything to you, say ye, that the Lord hath
need of them: and forthwith he will let them go.
4 Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the
prophet, saying:
5 Tell ye the daughter of Sion: Behold thy king cometh to thee, meek, and
sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of her that is used to the yoke.
6 And the disciples going, did as Jesus commanded them.
7 And they brought the ass and the colt, and laid their garments upon
them, and made him sit thereon.
8 And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way: and others
cut boughs from the trees, and strewed them in the way:
9 And the multitudes that went before and that followed, cried, saying:
Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the
Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
10 And when he was come into Jerusalem, the whole city was moved, saying:
Who is this?
11 And the people said: This is Jesus the prophet, from Nazareth of
Galilee.
12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold
and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers,
and the chairs of them that sold doves:
13 And he saith to them: It is written, My house shall be called the house
of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves.
14 And there came to him the blind and the lame in the temple; and he
healed them.
15 And the chief priests and scribes, seeing the wonderful things that he
did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying: Hosanna to the son
of David; were moved with indignation.
16 And said to him: Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus said to them:
Yea, have you never read: Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings
thou hast perfected praise?
17 And leaving them, he went out of the city into Bethania, and remained
there.
18 And in the morning, returning into the city, he was hungry.
19 And seeing a certain fig tree by the way side, he came to it, and found
nothing on it but leaves only, and he saith to it: May no fruit grow on
thee henceforward for ever. And immediately the fig tree withered away.
20 And the disciples seeing it wondered, saying: How is it presently
withered away?
21 And Jesus answering, said to them: Amen, I say to you, if you shall
have faith, and stagger not, not only this of the fig tree shall you do,
but also if you shall say to this mountain, Take up and cast thyself into
the sea, it shall be done.
22 And in all things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you
shall receive.
23 And when he was come into the temple, there came to him, as he was
teaching, the chief priests and ancients of the people, saying: By what
authority dost thou these things? and who hath given thee this authority?
24 Jesus answering, said to them: I also will ask you one word, which if
you shall tell me, I will also tell you by what authority I do these
things.
25 The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven or from men? But they
thought within themselves, saying:
26 If we shall say, from heaven, he will say to us: Why then did you not
believe him? But if we shall say, from men, we are afraid of the
multitude: for all held John as a prophet.
27 And answering Jesus, they said: We know not. He also said to them:
Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.
28 But what think you? A certain man had two sons; and coming to the
first, he said: Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
29 And he answering, said: I will not. But afterwards, being moved with
repentance, he went.
30 And coming to the other, he said in like manner. And he answering,
said: I go, Sir; and he went not.
31 Which of the two did the father's will? They say to him: The first.
Jesus saith to them: Amen I say to you, that the publicans and the harlots
shall go into the kingdom of God before you.
32 For John came to you in the way of justice, and you did not believe
him. But the publicans and the harlots believed him: but you, seeing it,
did not even afterwards repent, that you might believe him.
33 Hear ye another parable. There was a man an householder, who planted a
vineyard, and made a hedge round about it, and dug in it a press, and
built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen; and went into a strange
country.
34 And when the time of the fruits drew nigh, he sent his servants to the
husbandmen that they might receive the fruits thereof.
35 And the husbandmen laying hands on his servants, beat one, and killed
another, and stoned another.
36 Again he sent other servants more than the former; and they did to them
in like manner.
37 And last of all he sent to them his son, saying: They will reverence my
son.
38 But the husbandmen seeing the son, said among themselves: This is the
heir: come, let us kill him, and we shall have his inheritance.
39 And taking him, they cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed
him.
40 When therefore the lord of the vineyard shall come, what will he do to
those husbandmen?
41 They say to him: He will bring those evil men to an evil end; and will
let out his vineyard to other husbandmen, that shall render him the fruit
in due season.
42 Jesus saith to them: Have you never read in the Scriptures: The stone
which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? By
the Lord this has been done; and it is wonderful in our eyes.
43 Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God shall be taken from
you, and shall be given to a nation yielding the fruits thereof.
44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone, shall be broken: but on
whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.
45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they
knew that he spoke of them.
46 And seeking to lay hands on him, they feared the multitudes: because
they held him as a prophet.
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