Matthew 21

1When they came near to Jerusalem and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,Cross-references: Zech 14:4 · Matt 24:3 · Matt 26:30 · Mark 11:1 · Mark 14:26 · Luke 19:28 · +4 more

2saying 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.Cross-references: Matt 26:18 · Mark 11:2 · Mark 14:13 · Luke 19:30 · John 2:5

3If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and immediately he will send them.”Cross-references: 1Sam 10:26 · 1Ki 17:9 · 1Chr 29:14 · Ezra 1:1 · Ezra 1:5 · Ezra 7:27 · +10 more

4All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,Cross-references: Zech 9:9 · Matt 1:22 · Matt 26:56 · John 12:15 · John 19:36Examined: The Prophecy Loom →

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.”Cross-references: Gen 49:10 · Num 24:19 · Deut 17:16 · Judg 5:10 · Judg 12:14 · 2Sam 16:2 · +31 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

6The disciples went and did just as Jesus commanded them,Cross-references: Gen 6:22 · Gen 12:4 · Ex 39:43 · Ex 40:16 · 1Sam 15:11 · John 15:14Examined: The Prophecy Loom →

7and brought the donkey and the colt and laid their clothes on them; and he sat on them.Cross-references: 2Ki 9:13 · Mark 11:4 · Luke 19:32Examined: The Prophecy Loom →

8A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.Cross-references: Lev 23:40 · 2Ki 9:13 · John 12:13Examined: The Prophecy Loom →

9The 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!”Cross-references: Ps 118:24 · Matt 9:27 · Matt 21:15 · Matt 23:39 · Mark 11:9 · Luke 2:14 · +2 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

10When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”Cross-references: Ruth 1:19 · 1Sam 16:4 · Song 3:6 · Isa 63:1 · Matt 2:3 · Luke 5:21 · +6 more

11The multitudes said, “This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”Cross-references: Deut 18:15 · Matt 2:23 · Matt 16:13 · Mark 6:15 · Luke 7:16 · Luke 7:39 · +11 more

12Jesus 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.Cross-references: Ex 30:13 · Lev 1:14 · Lev 5:7 · Lev 5:11 · Lev 12:6 · Lev 12:8 · +11 more

13He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”Cross-references: Ps 93:5 · Isa 56:7 · Jer 7:11 · Matt 2:5 · Mark 11:17 · Luke 19:46 · +1 more

14The lame and the blind came to him in the temple, and he healed them.Cross-references: Isa 35:5 · Matt 4:23 · Matt 9:35 · Matt 11:4 · Acts 3:1 · Acts 10:38

15But 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,Cross-references: Isa 26:11 · Matt 9:27 · Matt 21:9 · Matt 21:23 · Matt 22:42 · Matt 26:3 · +13 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

16and 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’?”Cross-references: Ps 8:2 · Matt 11:25 · Matt 12:3 · Matt 19:4 · Matt 22:31 · Mark 2:25 · +3 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

17He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and camped there.Cross-references: Jer 6:8 · Hos 9:12 · Matt 16:4 · Matt 26:6 · Mark 3:7 · Mark 11:1 · +9 more

18Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.Cross-references: Matt 4:2 · Matt 12:1 · Mark 11:12 · Mark 11:20 · Luke 4:2 · Heb 4:15

19Seeing 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.Cross-references: Isa 5:4 · Mark 11:14 · Luke 3:9 · Luke 13:6 · Luke 19:42 · John 15:2 · +7 more

20When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree immediately wither away?”Cross-references: Isa 40:6 · Mark 11:20 · James 1:10

21Jesus 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.Cross-references: Matt 8:12 · Matt 17:20 · Mark 11:22 · Luke 17:6 · Rom 4:19 · 1Cor 13:2 · +1 more

22All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”Cross-references: Matt 7:7 · Matt 7:11 · Matt 18:19 · Mark 11:24 · Luke 11:8 · John 14:13 · +5 more

23When 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?”Cross-references: Ex 2:14 · 1Chr 24:1 · Matt 26:55 · Mark 11:27 · Luke 19:47 · Acts 4:7 · +1 more

24Jesus 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.Cross-references: Prov 26:4 · Matt 10:16 · Luke 6:9 · Col 4:6

25The 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?’Cross-references: Matt 3:1 · Matt 11:7 · Matt 17:12 · Mark 1:1 · Mark 11:27 · Luke 1:11 · +14 more

26But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.”Cross-references: Isa 57:11 · Matt 11:9 · Matt 14:5 · Matt 21:46 · Mark 6:20 · Mark 11:32 · +8 more

27They 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.Cross-references: Isa 6:10 · Isa 28:9 · Isa 29:10 · Isa 42:19 · Isa 56:10 · Jer 8:7 · +11 more

28But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’Cross-references: Matt 17:25 · Matt 20:1 · Matt 20:5 · Matt 21:33 · Matt 22:17 · Mark 13:34 · +4 more

29He answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind, and went.Cross-references: 2Chr 33:10 · Isa 1:16 · Isa 55:6 · Jer 44:16 · Ezek 18:28 · Dan 4:34 · +9 more

30He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I’m going, sir,’ but he didn’t go.Cross-references: Ezek 33:31 · Matt 23:3 · Rom 2:17 · Titus 1:16

31Which 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.Cross-references: 2Sam 12:5 · Job 15:6 · Ezek 33:11 · Matt 5:18 · Matt 6:5 · Matt 7:21 · +16 more

32For 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.Cross-references: Ps 81:11 · Isa 35:8 · Jer 6:16 · Zech 7:11 · Matt 3:1 · Matt 11:18 · +11 more

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.Cross-references: Deut 1:15 · Deut 16:18 · Deut 17:9 · Deut 33:8 · 1Ki 22:19 · Ps 80:8 · +16 more

34When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruit.Cross-references: 2Ki 17:13 · 2Chr 36:15 · Neh 9:29 · Song 8:11 · Isa 5:4 · Jer 25:3 · +6 more

35The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:4 · 1Ki 18:13 · 1Ki 19:2 · 1Ki 19:10 · 1Ki 22:24 · 2Chr 16:10 · +13 more

36Again, he sent other servants more than the first; and they treated them the same way.Cross-references: Matt 22:4

37But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’Cross-references: Isa 5:4 · Jer 36:3 · Zeph 3:7 · Matt 3:17 · Mark 12:6 · Luke 20:13 · +5 more

38But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and seize his inheritance.’Cross-references: Gen 37:18 · Ps 2:2 · Matt 2:13 · Matt 26:3 · Matt 27:1 · Mark 12:7 · +5 more

39So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard, then killed him.Cross-references: Matt 26:50 · Matt 26:57 · Mark 14:46 · Luke 22:52 · John 18:12 · John 18:24 · +8 more

40When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”Cross-references: Mark 12:9 · Luke 20:15 · Heb 10:29

41They 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.”Cross-references: Lev 26:14 · Deut 28:59 · Ps 2:4 · Ps 2:9 · Isa 5:5 · Isa 49:5 · +29 more

42Jesus 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’?Cross-references: Ps 118:22 · Isa 28:16 · Hab 1:5 · Zech 3:8 · Mark 12:10 · Luke 20:17 · +6 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

43“Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.Cross-references: Ex 19:6 · Isa 26:2 · Isa 28:2 · Matt 8:11 · Matt 12:28 · Matt 21:41 · +5 more

44He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”Cross-references: Ps 2:9 · Ps 2:12 · Ps 21:8 · Ps 110:5 · Isa 8:14 · Isa 60:12 · +12 more

45When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.Cross-references: Matt 12:12 · Luke 11:45 · Luke 20:19

46When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.Cross-references: 2Sam 12:7 · Prov 9:7 · Prov 15:12 · Isa 29:1 · Matt 21:11 · Matt 21:26 · +5 more