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1 And when they had come near to Jerusalem and they came into Bethphage to the Mount of Olives, then Yahshua sent out two students, 2 saying to them: "Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you shall find a leashed ass, and a colt with it. Releasing it bring it to Me. 3 And if anyone should say something to you, say that 'The Prince has need of them!' Then at once he shall send them." 4 Now this happened in order that that which was spoken through the prophet would be fulfilled, saying: 5 "Speak to the daughter of Sion: Behold, your King comes to you, meek and mounted upon an ass, even upon a colt - son of a beast of burden!" 6 And the students going and doing just as Yahshua prescribed to them, 7 they brought the ass and the foal and placed garments upon them and He sat atop of them. 8 Then most of the crowd had spread their own garments in the road, but others cut off branches from the trees and spread them in the road. 9 Then the crowds leading Him and those following cried out saying: "O salvation is with the Son of David! Blessed is He coming in the Name of Yahweh! O salvation in the heights!" 10 And upon His coming into Jerusalem all the city had been agitated, saying "Who is this man?" 11 And the crowds said: "This is Yahshua the prophet, who is from Nazareth of Galilaia!" 12 And Yahshua had entered into the temple, and He cast out all the dealers and buyers in the temple, and overturned the tables of the bankers and the seats of those selling doves, 13 and He says to them: "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer', but you make it a den of robbers!" 14 And they brought to Him in the temple the blind and the lame, and He healed them. 15 And seeing the wonders which He did, and the children who were in the temple crying out and saying "O salvation is with the Son of David!", the high priests and the scribes were irritated 16 and said to Him: "Do You hear what things they say?" Then Yahshua says to them: "Yes. Have you never read that 'From the mouths of babes and infants You have restored praise'?" 17 And leaving them He departed out of the city to Bethania and lodged there. 18 Then at dawn going back to the city He hungered. 19 And seeing one fig tree by the road He came upon it and found nothing in it except leaves only, and He says to it: "No longer shall there be fruit from you forever!" And immediately the fig tree withered. 20 And seeing it the students marveled, saying: "How could the fig tree have withered immediately?" 21 Then responding Yahshua said to them: "Truly I say to you, if you would have faith and not doubt, you would not only do such of the fig tree, but should you also say to this mountain: 'Be raised and cast into the sea', it will be! 22 And all things whatever you should ask in prayer, believing you shall receive." 23 And upon His having come into the temple, while teaching the high priests and the elders of the people came forth to Him saying: "By what authority do You do these things? And who has given to You this authority?" 24 Then replying Yahshua said to them: "I shall also ask you one question, which if you should tell Me, I also shall tell you by what authority I do these things: 25 From where was the immersion of Iohannes, from of heaven or from of men?" Then they disputed among themselves, saying: "If we should say "From of heaven', He shall say to us 'For what reason then had you not believed him?' 26 But if we should say 'From of men', we fear the crowd, for they all esteem Iohannes as a prophet!" 27 And replying to Yahshua they said "We do not know!" And He said to them: "Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things! " 28 Now what do you suppose? A man had two sons, and having come forth to the first he said: 'Son, go, today you must work in the vineyard.' 29 But he responding said 'I do not want to', but regretting it later he went. 30 Then coming forth to the other he spoke likewise. And responding he said "I shall, master', yet he had not gone. 31 Who out of the two sons has done the will of the father?" They say "the first!" Yahshua says to them: "Truly I say to you that the tax-collectors and the whores shall go into the kingdom of Yahweh before you! 32 For Iohannes came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him, but the tax-collectors and the whores believed him! And you seeing it have not later repented for which to believe him! " 33 Hear another parable. There was a man, a master of a house, who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a trough in it and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen, and he traveled abroad. 34 Then when the time for the fruits approached, he sent his servants to the husbandmen to receive of its fruits. 35 And the husbandmen taking his servants then had cudgeled one, and killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and they did likewise to them. 37 Then later he sent to them his son, saying 'They shall respect my son.' 38 But the husbandmen seeing the son said among themselves 'He is the heir! Come, we should kill him that we would have his inheritance!' 39 And taking him they cast him outside of the vineyard and killed him. 40 So when the master of the vineyard should come, what shall he do to those husbandmen?" 41 They say to Him: "He shall destroy the wicked one horribly and let the vineyard out to other husbandmen, who shall render to him the fruits in their seasons!" 42 Yahshua says to them: "Have you not ever read in the writings: 'The stone which the builders have rejected, this has come to be for the head cornerstone. By Yahweh has this been done, and it is a wonder in our eyes'? 43 For this reason I say to you that the kingdom of Yahweh shall be taken from you and given to a Nation producing its fruits! 44 And he falling upon this stone shall be broken in pieces, and upon whom it may fall, he shall be scattered like chaff!" 45 And hearing His parables the high priests and the Pharisees knew that He speaks concerning them. 46 And seeking to seize Him they feared the crowds, since they esteemed Him to be a prophet.