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Mark 11

¹When he came near Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, ²and told them, "Go into the village that is across from you, and as soon as you go into it, you will find a donkey tied up, on whom no human has sat. Untie it and bring it. ³And if anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The master needs it, and he will send it back here immediately.'" ⁴And they went and found the donkey tied up by the gate outside on the street, and they untied it. ⁵And certain persons who were standing there asked them, "What are you doing untying the donkey?" ⁶But they said to them just what Jesus had told them, and so they left them alone. ⁷And they brought the donkey to Jesus, and they threw their garments on it, and he sat on it. ⁸And many spread out their garments on the path, but others broke off leafy branches out of the fields. ⁹And they went before him and followed him, saying,

Hosanna
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.
¹⁰Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David,
Hosanna in the highest!

¹¹And he went into Jerusalem, into the temple, and he looked over everything, and it being evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

¹²The next day, as he was coming from Bethany, he was hungry. ¹³And when he saw a fig tree from far away that had leaves he thought he might find something on it, but when he got there he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. ¹⁴And in response he said to it, "May nobody ever eat fruit from you again!" And his disciples heard it.

¹⁵Then they went into Jerusalem, and after they entered the temple he began to throw out those who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and up-ended those of the dove sellers. ¹⁶He wouldn't let anyone carry any container through the temple, ¹⁷and he taught them and said,

Has it not been written:
My father's house will be called a house of prayer for all nations,
But you have made it a den of thieves.

¹⁸And the senior priests and the scribes heard it, and they began to search for a way to kill him. For they were afraid of the people, since the crowd was amazed at his teaching. ¹⁹And when it was evening, they went out of the city.

²⁰And as they were going by in the early morning they saw the fig tree, withered from the root. ²¹And Peter remembered and said to Jesus, "Rabbi look! The fig tree you cursed is withered!" ²²Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God. ²³Truly I tell you that whoever says to this mountain, 'Be raised up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will happen for him. ²⁴For this reason I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you received it, and it will happen for you. ²⁵And whenever you stand and pray, if you have something against anyone, forgive them, so that your father who is in heave may forgive your transgressions." ²⁶{But if you do not forgive, neither will your father in heaven forgive your transgressions.}

²⁷They entered Jerusalme again and while he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, scribes and elders came to him ²⁸and said to him, "By what authority do you do these things? Or who gave you the authority to do these things?" ²⁹But Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one thing, and if you answer me, I will tell you by what authority I'm doing these things. ³⁰John's baptism--was it from heavem, or from human sources? Answer me! ³¹And they debated amongst themselves, saying, "If we say 'From heaven' he will say 'then why didn't you believe him?' ³²But if we say, 'from human sources'"--they feared the crowd, because all held that John was a prophet. ³³So they answered Jesus, "We don't know." And Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things."

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