Mark 11:1–33

¹Now when they were getting near to Jerusalem, to Beth′pha‧ge and Beth′a‧ny at the Mount of Olives, he dispatched two of his disciples²and told them: “Go into the village that is within sight of ​YOU, and as soon as ​YOU​ pass into it ​YOU​ will find a colt tied, on which none of mankind has yet sat; loose it and bring it.³And if anyone says to ​YOU, ‘Why are ​YOU​ doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it, and will at once send it off back here.’”⁴So they went away and found the colt tied at the door, outside on the side street, and they loosed it.⁵But some of those standing there began to say to them: “What are ​YOU​ doing loosing the colt?”⁶They said to these just as Jesus had said; and they let them go.

⁷And they brought the colt to Jesus, and they put their outer garments upon it, and he sat on it.⁸Also, many spread their outer garments on the road, but others cut down foliage from the fields.⁹And those going in front and those coming behind kept crying out: “Save, we pray! Blessed is he that comes in Jehovah’s name!¹⁰Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Save, we pray, in the heights above!”¹¹And he entered into Jerusalem, into the temple; and he looked around upon all things, and, as the hour was already late, he went out to Beth′a‧ny with the twelve.

¹²The next day, when they had come out from Beth′a‧ny, he became hungry.¹³And from a distance he caught sight of a fig tree that had leaves, and he went to see whether he would perhaps find something on it. But, on coming to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season of figs.¹⁴So, in response, he said to it: “Let no one eat fruit from you anymore forever.” And his disciples were listening.

¹⁵Now they came to Jerusalem. There he entered into the temple and started to throw out those selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves;¹⁶and he would not let anyone carry a utensil through the temple,¹⁷but he kept teaching and saying: “Is it not written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But ​YOU​ have made it a cave of robbers.”¹⁸And the chief priests and the scribes heard it, and they began to seek how to destroy him; for they were in fear of him, for all the crowd was continually being astounded at his teaching.

¹⁹And when it became late in the day, they would go out of the city.²⁰But when they were passing by early in the morning, they saw the fig tree already withered up from the roots.²¹So Peter, remembering it, said to him: “Rabbi, see! the fig tree that you cursed has withered up.”²²And in reply Jesus said to them: “Have faith in God.²³Truly I say to ​YOU​ that whoever tells this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but has faith that what he says is going to occur, he will have it so.²⁴This is why I tell ​YOU, All the things ​YOU​ pray and ask for have faith that ​YOU​ have practically received, and ​YOU​ will have them.²⁵And when ​YOU​ stand praying, forgive whatever ​YOU​ have against anyone; in order that ​YOUR​ Father who is in the heavens may also forgive ​YOU YOUR​ trespasses.”²⁶——

²⁷And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the older men came to him²⁸and began to say to him: “By what authority do you do these things? or who gave you this authority to do these things?”²⁹Jesus said to them: “I will ask ​YOU​ one question. YOU​ answer me, and I will also tell ​YOU​ by what authority I do these things.³⁰Was the baptism by John from heaven or from men? Answer me.”³¹So they began to reason among themselves, saying: “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why is it, therefore, ​YOU​ did not believe him?’³²But dare we say, ‘From men’?”—They were in fear of the crowd, for these all held that John had really been a prophet.³³Well, in reply to Jesus they said: “We do not know.” And Jesus said to them: “Neither am I telling ​YOU​ by what authority I do these things.”