The Triumphal Entry
1qNow when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to rthe Mount of Olives, then Jesus ssent two disciples, 2saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. 3If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.” 4This took place tto fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying,
5u“Say to the daughter of Zion,
‘Behold, your king is coming to you,
vhumble, and mounted on a donkey,
on a colt,1 the foal of a beast of burden.’”
6The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. 7They brought the donkey and the colt and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them. 8Most of the crowd wspread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, x“Hosanna to ythe Son of David! zBlessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna ain the highest!” 10And bwhen he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?” 11And the crowds said, “This is cthe prophet Jesus, dfrom Nazareth of Galilee.”
Jesus Cleanses the Temple
12eAnd Jesus entered the temple2 and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of fthe money-changers and the seats of those who sold gpigeons. 13He said to them, “It is written, h‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but iyou make it a den of robbers.”
14jAnd the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15kBut when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, x“Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, 16and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; lhave you never read,
m“‘Out of the mouth of ninfants and nursing babies
you have prepared praise’?”
17And oleaving them, he pwent out of the city to qBethany and lodged there.
Jesus Curses the Fig Tree
18rIn the morning, as he was returning to the city, she became hungry. 19tAnd seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.
20When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither at once?” 21And Jesus answered them, u“Truly, I say to you, vif you have faith and wdo not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, x‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. 22And vwhatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, yif you have faith.”
The Authority of Jesus Challenged
23zAnd when he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him aas he was teaching, and said, b“By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?” 24Jesus answered them, “I also will ask you one question, and if you tell me the answer, then I also will tell you by what authority I do these things. 25The baptism of John, cfrom where did it come? dFrom heaven or from man?” And they discussed it among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, e‘Why then did you not believe him?’ 26But if we say, ‘From man,’ fwe are afraid of the crowd, for they all hold that John was ga prophet.” 27So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” And he said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.
The Parable of the Two Sons
28h“What do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in ithe vineyard today.’ 29And he answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he jchanged his mind and went. 30And he went to the other son and said the same. And he answered, ‘I go, sir,’ but did not go. 31Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, kthe tax collectors and lthe prostitutes go into mthe kingdom of God before you. 32For John came to you nin the way of righteousness, and oyou did not believe him, but pthe tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward jchange your minds and believe him.
The Parable of the Tenants
33q“Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted ra vineyard sand put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and tleased it to tenants, and uwent into another country. 34When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants3 to the tenants tto get his fruit. 35vAnd the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and wstoned another. 36xAgain he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them. 37Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, y‘This is the heir. Come, zlet us kill him and have his inheritance.’ 39And they took him and athrew him out of the vineyard and killed him. 40bWhen therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 41They said to him, c“He will put those wretches to a miserable death and dlet out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”
42Jesus said to them, e“Have you never read in the Scriptures:
f“‘The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;4
this was the Lord's doing,
and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
43Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God gwill be taken away from you and given to a people hproducing its fruits. 44And ithe one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and jwhen it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”5
45When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them. 46And lalthough they were seeking to arrest him, mthey feared the crowds, because they held him to be na prophet.
The Present Kingdom — Part One
Matthew 1:1 – John 21:25 Sermon • Includes Transcript • 37:00 • ID: 2392A Temporary Triumph
John 12:1–50, Luke 19:1–48, Matthew 21:1–46 Sermon • 37:23 • ID: 1183Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language.