Matthew 21:1-17

1Now as they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Yeshua sent two disciples,

2saying to them, “Go into the village before you. Right away, you’ll find a donkey tied up and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to Me.

3If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Master needs them.’ And right away he will send them.”

4This happened to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet, saying,

5“Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘See, your King is coming to you, humble and sitting on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”

6The disciples went and did as Yeshua had directed them.

7They brought the donkey and colt and put their clothing on them, and He sat on the clothing.

8Most of the crowd spread their clothing on the road, and others began cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road.

9The crowds going before Him and those following kept shouting, saying, “Hoshia-na to Ben-David! Baruch ha-ba b’shem Adonai! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! Hoshia-na in the highest!”

10When He entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”

11And the crowds kept saying, “This is the prophet Yeshua, from Natzeret in the Galilee.”

12Then Yeshua entered the Temple and drove out all those selling and buying in the Temple. He overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those selling doves.

13And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of thieves’!”

14The blind and lame came to Him in the Temple, and He healed them.

15But when the ruling kohanim and Torah scholars saw the wonders He performed, and the children crying out in the Temple and saying, “Hoshia-na to Ben-David,” they became indignant.

16And they said to Him, “Do You hear what these children are saying?” “Yes,” Yeshua said to them. “Haven’t you ever read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing toddlers You have prepared praise for Yourself’?”

17Then He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and He spent the night there.