1 When they came near to Jerusalem and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 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. 3 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and immediately he will send them."

4 All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,

5 "Tell the daughter of Zion,

behold, your King comes to you,

humble, and riding on a donkey,

on a colt, the foal of a donkey."

6 The disciples went and did just as Jesus commanded them, 7 and brought the donkey and the colt and laid their clothes on them; and he sat on them. 8 A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9 The multitudes who went in front of him, and those who followed, kept shouting, "Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"

10 When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, "Who is this?"

11 The multitudes said, "This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee."

12 Jesus 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. 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!"

14 The lame and the blind came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the son of David!" they were indignant, 16 and said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?"

Jesus said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of children and nursing babies, you have perfected praise?’"

17 He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and camped there.

18 Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry. 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.

20 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree immediately wither away?"

21 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done. 22 All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."

23 When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders 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?"

24 Jesus 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. 25 The baptism of John, 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?’ 26 But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet." 27 They answered Jesus, and said, "We don’t know."

He also said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things. 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.’ 29 He answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind, and went. 30 He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I’m going, sir,’ but he didn’t go. 31 Which of the two did the will of his father?"

They said to him, "The first."

Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you. 32 For John 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.

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 wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country. 34 When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruit. 35 The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first; and they treated them the same way. 37 But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 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.’ 39 So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard, then killed him. 40 When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?"

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."

42 Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures,

‘The stone which the builders rejected

was made the head of the corner.

This was from the Lord.

It is marvelous in our eyes’?

43 "Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you and will be given to a nation producing its fruit. 44 He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust."

45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them. 46 When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.

1 耶稣和门徒走近耶路撒冷， 来到橄榄山的伯法其那里。耶稣派了两个门徒，

2 对他们说： "你们往对面的村子里去， 立刻就会看见一头驴拴在那里， 还有小驴跟它在一起。把它们解开， 牵来给我。

3 如果有人问你们， 就要说： ‘主需要它们。’他会立刻让你们牵走。"

4 这件事应验了先知所说的：

5 "要对锡安的居民（"居民"原文作"女子"）说： ‘看哪， 你的王来到你这里了； 他是温柔的， 他骑着驴， 骑的是小驴。’"

6 门徒照着耶稣的吩咐去作。

7 牵了驴和小驴来， 把衣服搭在它们上面， 耶稣就骑上。

8 有一大群人把自己的衣服铺在路上， 也有人从树上把树枝砍下来， 铺在路上。

9 前呼后拥的群众喊叫着： "‘和散那’归于大卫的子孙， 奉主名来的是应当称颂的， 高天之上当唱‘和散那’。"

10 耶稣进了耶路撒冷， 全城都震动起来， 他们问： "这人是谁？"

11 大家都说： "这就是那先知耶稣， 是从加利利的拿撒勒来的。"

12 耶稣进了圣殿， 把殿里所有作买卖的人赶走， 并推倒找换银钱的人的桌子， 和卖鸽子的人的凳子；

13 又对他们说： "经上记着： ‘我的殿要称为祷告的殿。’你们竟把它弄成贼窝了。"

14 殿里的瞎子和瘸腿的都走过来， 耶稣就医好他们。

15 祭司长和经学家看见耶稣所行的奇事， 又看见小孩子在殿中喊叫"‘和散那’归于大卫的子孙"， 就很忿怒，

16 对耶稣说： "你听见他们说什么吗？"耶稣说： "我听见了。’你从小孩和婴儿的口中， 得着了赞美。’这话你们没有念过吗？"

17 于是离开他们， 出了城， 来到伯大尼， 在那里过了一夜。

18 耶稣清早回城的时候， 觉得饿了。

19 他看见路旁有一棵无花果树， 就走过去； 但他在树上什么也找不到， 只有叶子， 就对树说： "你永远不再结果子了。"那棵树就立刻枯萎。

20 门徒看见了， 十分惊奇， 说： "这棵无花果树是怎样立刻枯萎的呢？"

21 耶稣回答他们： "我实在告诉你们， 如果你们有信心， 不怀疑， 不但能作我对无花果树所作的， 就是对这座山说‘移开， 投到海里去’， 也必成就。

22 你们祷告， 无论求什么， 只要相信， 都必得着。"

23 耶稣进了圣殿， 正在教导人的时候， 祭司长和民间的长老前来问他： "你凭什么权柄作这些事？谁给你这权柄？"

24 耶稣回答他们： "我也要问你们一句话， 如果你们告诉我， 我就告诉你们我凭什么权柄作这些事。

25 约翰的洗礼是从哪里来的呢？是从天上来的， 还是从人来的呢？"他们就彼此议论： "如果我们说‘是从天上来的’， 他会问我们’那你们为什么不信他呢？’

26 如果我们说‘是从人来的’， 我们又怕群众， 因为他们都认为约翰是先知。"

27 于是回答耶稣： "我们不知道。"耶稣也对他们说： "我也不告诉你们， 我凭什么权柄作这些事。

28 "你们认为怎样？有一个人， 他有两个儿子。他去对大儿子说： ‘孩子， 你今天到葡萄园去工作吧。’

29 他说： ‘我不想去。’但后来他改变主意， 就去了。

30 父亲又照样去吩咐小儿子。小儿子说： ‘父亲， 我会去的。’后来却没有去。

31 这两个儿子， 哪一个听父亲的话呢？"他们说： "大儿子。"耶稣对他们说： "我实在告诉你们： 税吏和娼妓比你们先进 神的国。

32 约翰来到你们那里， 指示你们行义路（或译： "约翰在义路中， 来到你们这里"）， 你们不信他； 税吏和娼妓却信了他。你们看见了之后， 还是没有改变心意去信他。

33 "你们再听一个比喻： 有一个家主， 栽种了一个葡萄园， 四面围上篱笆， 在园子里挖了一个压酒池， 盖了一座瞭望台， 然后把园子租给佃户， 就远行去了。

34 到了收成的时候， 园主派了仆人到佃户那里， 收取应该纳给他的果子。

35 佃户却抓住他的仆人， 打伤一个， 杀了一个， 又用石头打死一个。

36 于是园主再派其他的仆人去， 人数比前一次更多， 但佃户也是同样对付他们。

37 最后， 他派了自己的儿子去， 说： ‘他们必尊敬我的儿子。’

38 佃户看见他的儿子， 就彼此说： ‘这是继承产业的； 来， 我们杀了他， 占有他的产业吧！ ’

39 于是他们抓住他， 把他推出葡萄园外杀了。

40 那么， 葡萄园的主人来到的时候， 会怎样对待那些佃户呢？"

41 他们回答： "他会毫不留情地除掉那些恶人， 把葡萄园租给按时缴纳果子的佃户。"

42 耶稣对他们说： "经上记着： ‘建筑工人所弃的石头， 成了房角的主要石头； 这是主所作的， 在我们眼中看为希奇。’这话你们没有念过吗？

43 因此我告诉你们， 神的国要从你们那里取去， 赐给那结果子的外族人。

44 谁跌在这石头上， 就必摔碎； 这石头掉在谁的身上， 就必把他压得粉碎。"

45 祭司长和法利赛人听了耶稣这些比喻， 知道是指着他们说的。

46 他们想要逮捕他， 但又怕群众， 因为他们都认为耶稣是先知。