Mark 11

And when they come near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, to the Mount of Olives, he sends out two of his disciples

and says to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately, entering into it, you will find a colt tied up, on which no one of men has yet sat. Untie it and bring it {here}.

And if anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it and immediately he sends it back here.’” \*

And they went away and found a colt having been tied up at a door outside on the street, and they untie it.

And some of the ones standing there were saying to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?”

And they spoke to them just as Jesus told them, and they let them go. \*

And they brought the colt to Jesus and throw their cloaks upon it, and he sat on it.

And many spread their cloaks on the road, and others, branches, having cut {them} from the fields.

Both the ones going before and the ones following were crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is the one coming in the name of the Lord. 10 Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!” \*

And he entered into Jerusalem, into the temple; and having looked around at everything, the hour already being late, he went out to Bethany with the Twelve.

And the next day, they having come out from Bethany, he was hungry. \*

And having seen from far away a fig tree having leaves, he went, if perhaps he will find anything on it. And having come to it, he found nothing except leaves, for it was not the season of figs.

And answering, he said to it, “May no one any longer eat fruit from you to eternity.” And his disciples heard {it}. \*

And they come into Jerusalem. And having entered into the temple, he began to cast out the ones selling and the ones buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of the ones selling the doves,

and he was not permitting that anyone would carry a container through the temple. \*

And he was teaching them and saying, “Has it not been written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a ‘den of robbers.’”

And the chief priests and the scribes heard this, and they were seeking how they might destroy him, for they were fearing him, for all the crowd was being amazed at his teaching.

And when evening came, they were going out outside the city. \*

And passing by in the morning, they saw the fig tree having withered from the roots.

And having been reminded, Peter says to him, “Rabbi, behold! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.” \*

And answering, Jesus says to them, “Have faith in God.

Truly I say to you that whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and be thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening, it will be for him. \*

Because of this, I say to you, everything, as much as you pray and request, believe that you have received {it}, and it will be to you.

And when you stand praying, if you have something against anyone, forgive so that your Father in the heavens may also forgive you your trespasses.

[But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in the heavens forgive your trespasses.]” \*

And they come to Jerusalem again, and he walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders come to him.

And they were saying to him, “By what authority do you do these things, or who gave you this authority, so that you might do these things?” \*

But Jesus said to them, “I also will ask you one word, and you answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.

Was the baptism of John from heaven, or from men? Answer me.” \*

And they were reasoning with each other, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘For what {reason} then did you not believe him?’

But should we say, ‘From men’?” (They were afraid of the crowd, for they all held that John really was a prophet.)

And answering Jesus, they say, “We do not know.” And Jesus says to them, “Nor do I tell you by what authority I do these things.” \*