The Good News According to Mattityahu, Chapter 21
{21:1} When they drew near to Yerushalayim, and came to Beit-Pagey,
to the Mount of Olives, then Yeshua sent two [1>]talmidim[<1], {21:2}
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. {21:3} If anyone says anything to you, you
shall say, 'The Lord needs them,' and immediately he will send them."
{21:4} All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was
spoken through the prophet, saying,
{21:5} "Tell the daughter of Tziyon,
Behold, your King comes to you,
Humble, and riding on a donkey,
On a colt, the foal of a donkey."
{21:6} The [2>]talmidim[<2] went, and did just as Yeshua commanded
them, {21:7} and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their
clothes on them; and he sat on them. {21:8} A very great multitude
spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees,
and spread them on the road. {21:9} The multitudes who went before
him, and who followed kept shouting, "Hoshia`na to the son of David!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hoshia`na in the
highest!"
{21:10} When he had come into Yerushalayim, all the city was stirred
up, saying, "Who is this?" {21:11} The multitudes said, "This is the
prophet, Yeshua, from Natzeret of the Galil."
{21:12} Yeshua entered into the temple of God, 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.
{21:13} 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!"
{21:14} The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he
healed them. {21:15} But when the chief [3>]Kohanim[<3] and the
[4>]Sofrim[<4] saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children
who were crying in the temple and saying, "Hoshia`na to the son of
David!" they were indignant, {21:16} and said to him, "Do you hear
what these are saying?"
Yeshua said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'Out of the mouth of
babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?'"
{21:17} He left them, and went out of the city to Beit-Anyah, and
lodged there. {21:18} Now in the morning, as he returned to the city,
he was hungry. {21:19} 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. {21:20} When the
[5>]talmidim[<5] saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree
immediately wither away?"
{21:21} Yeshua answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you, if you
have faith, and don't doubt, you will not only do what is done to the
fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast
into the sea,' it would be done. {21:22} All things, whatever you ask
in prayer, believing, you will receive."
{21:23} When he had come into the temple, the chief [6>]Kohanim[<6]
and the Zakenim 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?"
{21:24} Yeshua 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. {21:25} The immersion of Yochanan, where was it from?
From heaven or from men?"
They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he
will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?' {21:26} But if we
say, 'From men,' we fear the multitude, for all hold Yochanan as a
prophet." {21:27} They answered Yeshua, and said, "We don't know."
He also said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I
do these things. {21:28} But what do you think? A man had two sons,
and he came to the first, and said, 'Son, go work today in my
vineyard.' {21:29} He answered, 'I will not,' but afterward he changed
his mind, and went. {21:30} He came to the second, and said the same
thing. He answered, 'I go, sir,' but he didn't go. {21:31} Which of
the two did the will of his father?"
They said to him, "The first."
Yeshua said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you that the tax
collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God
before you. {21:32} For Yochanan came to you in the way of
righteousness, and you didn't believe him, but the tax collectors and
the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn't even repent
afterward, that you might believe him.
{21:33} "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
into another country. {21:34} When the season for the fruit drew near,
he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit. {21:35} The
farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned
another. {21:36} Again, he sent other servants more than the first:
and they treated them the same way. {21:37} But afterward he sent to
them his son, saying, 'They will respect my son.' {21:38} But the
farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, 'This is the
heir. Come, let's kill him, and seize his inheritance.' {21:39} So
they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
{21:40} When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do
to those farmers?"
{21:41} 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."
{21:42} Yeshua 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?'
{21:43} "Therefore I tell you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away
from you, and will be given to a nation bringing forth its fruits.
{21:44} He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on
whoever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust."
{21:45} When the chief [7>]Kohanim[<7] and the Perushim heard his
parables, they perceived that he spoke about them. {21:46} When they
sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they
considered him to be a prophet.
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Footnotes:
[1] {21:1} disciples
[2] {21:6} disciples
[3] {21:15} priests
[4] {21:15} scribes
[5] {21:20} disciples
[6] {21:23} priests
[7] {21:45} priests
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