Matthew 21 (NET)

Matthew 21:1¹Now when they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:2²telling them, “Go to the village ahead of you. Right away you will find a donkey tied there, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:3³If anyone says anything to you, you are to say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:4⁴This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:5⁵“Tell the people of Zion, ‘Look, your king is coming to you, unassuming and seated on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:6⁶So the disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:7⁷They brought the donkey and the colt and placed their cloaks on them, and he sat on them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:8⁸A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road. Others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:9⁹The crowds that went ahead of him and those following kept shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:10¹⁰As he entered Jerusalem the whole city was thrown into an uproar, saying, “Who is this?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:11¹¹And the crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth in Galilee.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:12¹²Then Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple courts, and turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:13¹³And he said to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer, ’ but you are turning it into a den of robbers!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:14¹⁴The blind and lame came to him in the temple courts, and he healed them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:15¹⁵But when the chief priests and the experts in the law saw the wonderful things he did and heard the children crying out in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became indignantCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:16¹⁶and said to him, “Do you hear what they are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you never read, ‘Out of the mouths of children and nursing infants you have prepared praise for yourself ’?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:17¹⁷And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:18¹⁸Now early in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:19¹⁹After noticing a fig tree by the road he went to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, “Never again will there be fruit from you!” And the fig tree withered at once.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:20²⁰When the disciples saw it they were amazed, saying, “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:21²¹Jesus answered them, “I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:22²²And whatever you ask in prayer, if you believe, you will receive.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:23²³Now after Jesus entered the temple courts, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching and said, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:24²⁴Jesus answered them, “I will also ask you one question. If you answer me then I will also tell you by what authority I do these things.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:25²⁵Where did John’s baptism come from? From heaven or from people?” They discussed this among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:26²⁶But if we say, ‘From people,’ we fear the crowd, for they all consider John to be a prophet.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:27²⁷So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Then he said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:28²⁸“What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:29²⁹The boy answered, ‘I will not.’ But later he had a change of heart and went.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:30³⁰The father went to the other son and said the same thing. This boy answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but did not go.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:31³¹Which of the two did his father’s will?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, tax collectors and prostitutes will go ahead of you into the kingdom of God!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:32³²For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe. Although you saw this, you did not later change your minds and believe him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:33³³“Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:34³⁴When the harvest time was near, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his portion of the crop.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:35³⁵But the tenants seized his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:36³⁶Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they treated them the same way.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:37³⁷Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:38³⁸But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and get his inheritance!’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:39³⁹So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:40⁴⁰Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:41⁴¹They said to him, “He will utterly destroy those evil men! Then he will lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his portion at the harvest.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:42⁴²Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes ’?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:43⁴³For this reason I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:44⁴⁴The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:45⁴⁵When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Matthew 21:46⁴⁶They wanted to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowds, because the crowds regarded him as a prophet.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s