Евангелие от Матфея 21

1 И егда приближишася во Иерусалим и приидоша в вифсфагию к горе елеонстей, тогда Иисус посла два ученика,2 глаголя има: идита в весь, яже прямо вама: и абие обрящета осля привязано, и жребя с ним: отрешивша приведита ми:3 и аще вама кто речет что, речета, яко Господь ею требует: абие же послет я.4 Сие же все бысть, да сбудется реченное пророком, глаголющим:5 рцыте дщери сионове: се, Царь твой грядет тебе кроток, и всед на осля и жребя, сына подяремнича.6 Шедша же ученика и сотворша, якоже повеле има Иисус,7 приведоста осля и жребя: и возложиша верху ею ризы своя, и вседе верху их.8 Множайшии же народи постилаху ризы своя по пути: друзии же резаху ветви от древ и постилаху по пути.9 Народи же предходящии (ему) и вследствующии зваху, глаголюще: осанна Сыну давидову: благословен грядый во имя Господне: осанна в вышних.10 И вшедшу ему во Иерусалим, потрясеся весь град, глаголя: кто есть сей?11 Народи же глаголаху: сей есть Иисус пророк, иже от назарета галилейска.12 И вниде Иисус в церковь Божию и изгна вся продающыя и купующыя в церкви, и трапезы торжником испроверже и седалища продающих голуби,13 и глагола им: писано есть: храм мой храм молитвы наречется: вы же сотвористе и вертеп разбойником.14 И приступиша к нему хромии и слепии в церкви: и изцели их.15 Видевше же архиерее и книжницы чудеса, яже сотвори, и отроки зовущя в церкви и глаголющя: осанна Сыну давидову, негодоваша16 и реша ему: слышиши ли, что сии глаголют? Иисус же рече им: ей: несте ли чли николиже, яко из уст младенец и ссущих совершил еси хвалу?17 И оставль их, изыде вон из града в вифанию и водворися ту.18 Утру же возвращься во град, взалка:19 и узрев смоковницу едину при пути, прииде к ней, и ничтоже обрете на ней, токмо листвие едино, и глагола ей: да николиже от тебе плода будет во веки. И абие изсше смоковница.20 И видевше ученицы дивишася, глаголюще: како абие изсше смоковница?21 Отвещав же Иисус рече им: аминь глаголю вам: аще имате веру и не усумнитеся, не токмо смоковничное сотворите, но аще и горе сей речете: двигнися и верзися в море, будет:22 и вся, елика аще воспросите в молитве верующе, приимете.23 И пришедшу ему в церковь, приступиша к нему учащу архиерее и старцы людстии, глаголюще: коею властию сия твориши? и кто ти даде власть сию?24 Отвещав же Иисус рече им: вопрошу вы и аз слово едино: еже аще речете мне, и аз вам реку, коею властию сия творю:25 крещение иоанново откуду бе? с небесе ли, или от человек? Они же помышляху в себе, глаголюще: аще речем, с небесе: речет нам: почто убо не веровасте ему?26 аще ли речем, от человек: боимся народа: вси бо имут иоанна яко пророка.27 И отвещавше Иисусови реша: не вемы. Рече им и той: ни аз вам глаголю, коею властию сия творю.28 Что же ся вам мнит? Человек некий имяше два сына, и пришед к первому, рече: чадо, иди днесь, делай в винограде моем.29 Он же отвещав рече: не хощу: последи же раскаявся, иде.30 И приступль к другому, рече такоже. Он же отвещав рече: аз, господи (иду): и не иде.31 Кий от обою сотвори волю отчу? Глаголаша ему: первый. глагола им Иисус: аминь глаголю вам, яко мытари и любодейцы варяют вы в Царствии Божии:32 прииде бо к вам иоанн (креститель) путем праведным, и не веровасте ему, мытари же и любодейцы вероваша ему: вы же видевше, не раскаястеся последи веровати ему.33 Ину притчу слышите. Человек некий бе домовит, иже насади виноград, и оплотом огради его, и ископа в нем точило, и созда столп, и вдаде и делателем, и отиде.34 Егда же приближися время плодов, посла рабы своя к делателем прияти плоды его:35 и емше делателе рабов его, оваго убо биша, оваго же убиша, оваго же камением побиша.36 Паки посла ины рабы множайшя первых: и сотвориша им такоже.37 Последи же посла к ним сына своего, глаголя: усрамятся сына моего.38 Делателе же видевше сына, реша в себе: сей есть наследник: приидите, убием его и удержим достояние его.39 И емше его изведоша вон из винограда и убиша.40 Егда убо приидет господин винограда, что сотворит делателем тем?41 Глаголаша ему: злых зле погубит их, и виноград предаст иным делателем, иже воздадят ему плоды во времена своя.42 глагола им Иисус: несте ли чли николиже в писаниих: камень, егоже не в ряду сотвориша зиждущии, сей бысть во главу угла? от Господа бысть сие, и есть дивно во очию вашею.43 Сего ради глаголю вам, яко отимется от вас Царствие Божие и дастся языку творящему плоды его:44 и падый на камени сем сокрушится: а на немже падет, сотрыет и.45 И слышавше архиерее и фарисее притчи его, разумеша, яко о них глаголет:46 и ищуще его яти, убояшася народа, понеже яко пророка его имеяху.

Matthew 21

The Triumphal Entry

1 Nowt when they approached Jerusalems and came to Bethphage,s at the Mount of Olives,s Jesus sent two disciples,2 telling them, “Go to the village ahead of you.t Right away you will find a donkey tied there, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me.3 If anyone says anything to you, you are to say, ‘The Lord needs them,’s and he will send them at once.”

4 Thist took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet:t

5 “Tell the people of Zion,t
‘Look, your king is coming to you,
unassuming and seated on a donkey,
and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”t
6 Sot the disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them.7 They brought the donkey and the colt and placed their cloakst on them, and he sat on them.8 At very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road. Others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.9 The crowds that went ahead of him and those following kept shouting,t “Hosannats to the Son of David! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!sHosanna in the highest!”10 As he entered Jerusalem the whole city was thrown into an uproar,t saying, “Who is this?”

11 And the crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareths in Galilee.”

Cleansing the Temple

12 Thent Jesus entered the temple areats and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple courts,ts and turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.

13 And he said to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’s but you are turning it into a dentof robbers!”s
14 The blind and lame came to him in the temple courts, and he healed them.15 But when the chief priests and the experts in the lawt saw the wonderful things he did and heard the children crying out in the temple courts,t “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became indignant16 and 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’?”s

17 And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.

The Withered Fig Tree

18 Now early in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.19 After noticing a fig treets 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.20 When the disciples saw it they were amazed, saying, “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?”21 Jesust answered them, “I tell you the truth,t 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.

22 And whatever you ask in prayer, if you believe,t you will receive.”

The Authority of Jesus

23 Now after Jesust entered the temple courts,t the chief priests and elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching and said, “By what authorityt are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”24 Jesust 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.25 Where did John’s baptism come from? From heaven or from people?”ts They discussed this among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’26 But if we say, ‘From people,’ we fear the crowd, for they all consider John to be a prophet.”

27 Sot they answered Jesus,t “We don’t know.”s Then he said to them, “Neither will I tell yous by what authorityt I am doing these things.

The Parable of the Two Sons

28 “Whatt do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’29 The boy answered,t ‘I will not.’ But later he had a change of heartt and went.30 The fathert went to the other son and said the same thing. This boy answered,t ‘I will, sir,’ but did not go.31 Which of the two did his father’s will?” They said, “The first.”s Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth,t tax collectorss and prostitutes will go ahead of you into the kingdom of God!

32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe. Althought you saw this, you did not later change your mindss and believe him.

The Parable of the Tenants

33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landownert who planted a vineyard.s He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Thent he leased it to tenant farmerss and went on a journey.34 When the harvest time was near, he sent his slavests to the tenants to collect his portion of the crop.t35 But the tenants seized his slaves, beat one,s killed another, and stoned another.36 Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they treated them the same way.37 Finally he sent his son to them,s saying, ‘They will respect my son.’38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and get his inheritance!’39 Sot they seized him,t threw him out of the vineyard,s and killed him.40 Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”

41 They 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.”

42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures:
‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.ts
This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?s
43 For this reason I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a peoplet who will produce its fruit.44 The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.”ssts45 Whent the chief priests and the Phariseess heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them.

46 They wanted to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowds, because the crowdst regarded him as a prophet.