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111 THEY WERE NOW APPROACHING Jerusalem, and when they reached Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, 2 he sent two of his disciples with these instructions: 'Go to the village opposite, and, just as you enter, you will find tethered there a colt which no one has yet ridden.Untie it and bring it here. 3 If anyone asks, "Why are you doing that?", say, "Our Master needs it, and will send it back here without delay." 4 ' So they went off, and found the colt tethered to a door outside in the street. 5 They were untying it when some of the bystanders asked, 'What are you doing, untying that colt?' 6 They answered as Jesus had told them, and were then allowed to take it. 7 So they brought the colt to Jesus and spread their cloaks on it, and he mounted. 8 And people carpeted the road with their cloaks, while others spread brushwood which they had cut in the fields; 9 and those who went ahead and the others who came behind shouted, 'Hosanna! 10 Blessings on him who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessings on the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the heavens!'
11 He entered Jerusalem and went into the temple, where he looked at the whole scene; but, as it was now late, he went out to Bethany with the Twelve.
12 On the following day, after they had left Bethany, he felt hungry, 13 and, noticing in the distance a fig-tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. But when he came there he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. 14 He said to the tree, 'May no one ever again eat fruit from you!' And his disciples were listening.
15 So they came to Jerusalem, and he went into the temple and began driving out those who bought and sold in the temple. He upset the tables of the money-changers and the seats of the dealers in pigeons; 16 and he would not allow anyone to use the temple court as a thoroughfare for carrying goods. 17 Then he began to teach them, and said, 'Does not Scripture say, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations"? But you have made it a robbers' cave.' 18 The chief priests and the doctors of the law heard of this and sought some means of making away with him; for they were afraid of him, because the whole crowd was spellbound by his teaching. 19 And when evening came he went out of the city.
20 Early next morning, as they passed by, they saw that the fig-tree had withered from the roots up; 21 and Peter, recalling what had happened, said to him, 'Rabbi, look, the fig-tree which you cursed has withered.' 22 Jesus answered them, 'Have faith in God. 23 I tell you this: if anyone says to this mountain, "Be lifted from your place and hurled into the sea", and has no inward doubts, but believes that what he says is happening, it will be done for him. 24 I tell you, then, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be yours.
25 'And when you stand praying, if you have a grievance against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you the wrongs you have done.' 26 Some manuscripts add: But if you do not forgive others, then the wrongs you have done will not be forgiven by your Father in heaven.
27 THEY CAME ONCE MORE to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple court the chief priests, lawyers, and elders came to him 28 and said, 'By what authority are you acting like this? Who gave you authority to act in this way?' 29 Jesus said to them, 'I will ask you one question; and if you give me an answer, I will tell you by what authority I act. 30 The baptism of John: was it from God, or from men? Answer me.' 31 This set them arguing among themselves: 'What shall we say? If we say, "from God", he will say, "Then why did you not believe him?" 32 Shall we say, "from men"?'- but they were afraid of the people, for all held that John was in fact a prophet. 33 So they answered Jesus, 'We do not know.' And Jesus said to them, 'Then neither will I tell you by what authority I act.'
121 He went on to speak to them in Pbles: 'A man planted a vineyard and put a wall round it, hewed out a winepress, and built a watch-tower; then he let it out to vine-growers and went abroad. 2 When the vintage season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them his share of the produce. 3 But they took him, thrashed him, and sent him away empty-handed. 4 Again, he sent them another servant, whom they beat about the head and treated outrageously. 5 So he sent another, and that one they killed; and many more besides, of whom they beat some, and killed others. 6 He had now only one left to send, his own dear son. In the end he sent him. "They will respect my son", he said. 7 But the tenants said to one another, "This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the property will be ours." 8 So they seized him and killed him, and flung his body out of the vineyard. 9 What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and put the tenants to death and give the vineyard to others.
10 'Can it be that you have never read this text: "The stone which the builders rejected has become the main corner-stone. 11 This is the Lord's doing, and it is wonderful in our eyes"?'
12 Then they began to look for a way to arrest him, for they saw that the Pble was aimed at them; but they were afraid of popular feeling, so they left him alone and went away.
13 A NUMBER OF PHARISEES and men of Herod's party were sent to trap him with a question. 14 They came and said, 'Master, you are an honest man, we know, and truckle to no man, whoever he may be; you teach in all honesty the way of life that God requires. Are we or are we not permitted to pay taxes to the Roman Emperor? 15 Shall we pay or not?' He saw how crafty their question was, and said, 'Why are you trying to catch me out? 16 Fetch me a silver piece, and let me look at it.' They brought one, and he said is to them, 'Whose head is this, and whose inscription?' 'Caesar's', they replied. 17 Then Jesus said, 'Pay Caesar what is due to Caesar, and pay God what is due to God.' And they heard him with astonishment.
18 Next Sadducees came to him. (It is they who say that there is no resurrection.) Their question was this: 19 'Master, Moses laid it down for us that if there are brothers, and one dies leaving a wife but no child, then the next should marry the widow and carry on his brother's family. 20 Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife and died without issue. 21 Then the second married her, and he too died without issue. So did the third. 22 Eventually the seven of them died, all without issue. Finally the woman died. 23 At the resurrection, when they come back to life, whose wife will she be, since all seven had married her?' 24 Jesus said to them, 'You are mistaken, and surely this is the reason: you do not know either the scriptures or the power of God. 25 When they rise from the dead, men and women do not marry; they are like angels in heaven. 26 'Now about the resurrection of the dead, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the story of the burning bush, how God spoke to him and said,
28 Then one of the lawyers, who had been listening to these discussions and had noted how well he answered, came forward and asked him, 'Which commandment is first of all?' 29 Jesus answered, 'The first is, "Hear, O Israel: the Lord your God is the only Lord; 30 love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength." 31 The second is this: "Love your neighbour as yourself." There is no other commandment greater than these.' 32 The lawyer said to him, 'Well said. Master. You are right in saying that God is one and beside him there is no other. 33 And to love him with all your heart, all your understanding, and all your strength, and to love your neighbour as yourself - that is far more than any burnt offerings or sacrifices.' 34 When Jesus saw how sensibly he answered, he said to him, 'You are not far from the kingdom of God.'
After that nobody ventured to put any more questions to him,
There was a great crowd and they listened eagerly.
41 Once he was standing opposite the temple treasury, watching as people dropped their money into the chest. Many rich people were giving large sums. 42 Presently there came a poor widow who dropped in two tiny coins, together worth a farthing. 43 He called his disciples to him. 'I tell you this,' he said: 'this widow has given more than any of the others; 44 for those others who have given had more than enough, but she, with less than enough, has given all that she had to live on.'
131 AS HE WAS LEAVING the temple, one of his disciples exclaimed, 'Look, Master, what huge stones! What fine buildings!' 2 Jesus said to him, 'You see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left upon another; all will be thrown down.'
3 When he was sitting on the Mount of Olives facing the temple he was questioned privately by Peter, James, John, and Andrew. 4 'Tell us,' they said, 'when will this happen? What will be the sign when the fulfilment of all this is at hand?'
5 Jesus began: 'Take care that no one misleads you. 6 Many will come claiming my name, and saying, "I am he"; and many will be misled by them.
7 'When you hear the noise of battle near at hand and the news of battles far away, do not be alarmed. Such things are bound to happen; but the end is still to come. 8 For nation will make war upon nation, kingdom upon kingdom; there will be earthquakes in many places; there will be famines. With these things the birth-pangs of the new age begin.
9 'As for you, be on your guard. You will be handed over to the courts. You will be flogged in synagogues. You will be summoned to appear before governors and kings on my account to testify in their presence. 10 But before the end the Gospel must be proclaimed to all nations. 11 So when you are arrested and taken away, do not worry beforehand about what you will say, but when the time comes say whatever is given you to say; for it will not be you that speak, but the Holy Spirit. 12 Brother will betray brother to death, and the father his child; children will turn against their parents and send them to their death. 13 All will hate you for your allegiance to me; but the man who holds out to the end will be saved.
14 'But when you see "the abomination of desolation" usurping a place which is not his (let the reader understand), then those who are in Judaea must take to the hills. 15 If a man is on the roof, he must not come down into the house to fetch anything out; 16 if in the field, he must not turn back for his cloak. 17 Alas for women with child in those days, and for those who have children at the breast! 18 Pray that it may not come in winter. 19 For those days will bring distress such as never has been until now since the beginning of the world which God created-and will never be again. 20 If the Lord had not cut short that time of troubles, no living thing could survive. However, for the sake of his own, whom he has chosen, he has cut short the time.
21 'Then, if anyone says to you, "Look, here is the Messiah", or, "Look, there he is", do not believe it. 22 Impostors will come claiming to be messiahs or prophets, and they will produce signs and wonders to mislead God's chosen, if such a thing were possible. 23 But you be on your guard; I have forewarned you of it all.
24 'But in those days, after that distress, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give her light; 25 the stars will come falling from the sky, the celestial powers will be shaken. 26 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory, 27 and he will send out the angels and gather his chosen from the four winds, from the farthest bounds of earth to the farthest bounds of heaven.
28 'Learn a lesson from the fig-tree. When its tender shoots appear and are breaking into leaf, you know that summer is near. 29 In the same way, when you see all this happening, you may know that the end is near, at the very door. 30 I tell you this: the present generation will live to see it all. 31 Heaven and earth will pass away; my words will never pass away.
32 'But about that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, not even the Son; only the Father.
33 'Be alert, be wakeful. You do not know when the moment comes. 34 It is like a man away from home: he has left his house and put his servants in charge, each with his own work to do, and he has ordered the doo rkeeper to stay a 35 Keep awake, then, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming. 36 Evening or midnight, cock-crow or early dawn - if he comes suddenly, he must not find you asleep. 37 And what I say to you, I say to everyone: Keep awake.'