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Matthew 21: The King Comes to Jerusalem

Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey while crowds wave branches and shout Hosanna! He clears the temple of buyers and sellers, heals the blind and lame there, and children praise Him. He teaches about faith and prayer, answers the leaders' questions about His authority, and tells parables about two sons and wicked tenants.

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  1. 1 When they came near to Jerusalem and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  2. 2 saying 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  3. 3 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and immediately he will send them.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  4. 4 All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  5. 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.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  6. 6 The disciples went and did just as Jesus commanded them,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  7. 7 and brought the donkey and the colt and laid their clothes on them; and he sat on them.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  8. 8 A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  9. 9 The 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!”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  10. 10 When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  11. 11 The multitudes said, “This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  12. 12 Jesus 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  13. 13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  14. 14 The lame and the blind came to him in the temple, and he healed them.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  15. 15 But 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,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  16. 16 and 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’?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  17. 17 He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and camped there.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  18. 18 Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  19. 19 Seeing 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  20. 20 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree immediately wither away?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  21. 21 Jesus 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  22. 22 All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  23. 23 When 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?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  24. 24 Jesus 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  25. 25 The 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?’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  26. 26 But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  27. 27 They 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  28. 28 But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  29. 29 He answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind, and went.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  30. 30 He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I’m going, sir,’ but he didn’t go.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  31. 31 Which 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  32. 32 For 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  33. 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  34. 34 When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruit.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  35. 35 The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  36. 36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first; and they treated them the same way.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  37. 37 But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  38. 38 But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and seize his inheritance.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  39. 39 So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard, then killed him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  40. 40 When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  41. 41 They 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.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  42. 42 Jesus 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’?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  43. 43 “Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  44. 44 He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  45. 45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  46. 46 When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org

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Hosanna to the King!

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Color the picture. Point to Jesus on the donkey, the palm branches and the happy crowd.

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Bible Verse

The 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!”

Matthew 21:9 (WEB)

Prayer

Thank You, God, for making me!

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Read the verse aloud. Wave a pretend branch and shout Hosanna! together. Say: Jesus is our King!

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