These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Matthew 21
Brit Hadashah 46 verses
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When they were come near and had arrived at Bethphage and the Mount of Olives, sent two of the disciples on in front,
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saying to them, “Go to the village you see facing you, and as you enter it you will find a she-ass tied up and a foal with her. Untie her and bring them to me.
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- 3 And if any one says anything to you, say, ‘The Master needs them,’ and he will at once send them.”
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This took place in order that the Prophet’s prediction might be fulfilled:
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“Tell the Daughter of , ‘See, thy King is coming to thee, gentle, and yet mounted on an ass, even on a colt the foal of a beast of burden.’”
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Zechariah 9:9-10 Isaiah 62:11 Matthew 11:29 Genesis 49:10 Judges 5:10 Zechariah 6:12-13 Mark 11:4-11 2 Samuel 16:2 Numbers 24:19 Matthew 2:2 Psalm 9:14 Deuteronomy 17:16 Psalm 110:1-4 Matthew 12:19-20 Isaiah 9:6-7 Hosea 1:7 2 Corinthians 10:1 Micah 5:10-11 Psalm 72:1-20 John 1:49 Jeremiah 23:5-6 Zephaniah 3:14-15 Daniel 7:13-14 Isaiah 40:9 John 19:15-22 Ezekiel 34:24 Micah 5:2 Judges 12:14 1 Kings 1:33 Philippians 2:3-5 Psalm 45:1-17 Matthew 2:6 Ezekiel 37:24 1 Kings 10:26 Daniel 2:44-45 Isaiah 12:6 Psalm 2:6-12 -
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So the disciples went and did as had instructed them:
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they brought the she-ass and the foal, and threw their outer garments on them. So He sat on them;
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and most of the crowd kept spreading their garments along the road, while others cut branches from the trees and carpeted the road with them,
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and the multitudes—some of the people preceding Him and some following—sang aloud, “ the Son of ! Blessings on Him who comes in the Lord’s ! in the highest Heavens Him!”
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When He thus entered , the whole city was thrown into commotion, every one inquiring, “Who is this?”
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- 11 “This is , the Prophet, from in ,” replied the crowds.
- 12 Entering the Temple, drove out all who were buying and selling there, and overturned the money-changers’ tables and the seats of the pigeon-dealers.
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“It is written,” He said, “’My House shall be called the House of Prayer’, but you are making it a robbers’ cave.”
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And the blind and the lame came to Him in the Temple, and He cured them.
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- 15 But when the High Priests and the Scribes saw the wonderful things that He had done and the children who were crying aloud in the Temple, “ the Son of ,” they were filled with indignation.
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“Do you ,” they asked Him, “what these children are saying?” “Yes,” He replied; “have you never read, ‘Out of the mouths of infants and of babes at the breast Thou hast brought forth the which is due’?”
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- 17 So He left them and went out of the city to Bethany and passed the night there.
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Early in the morning as He was on His way to return to the city He was hungry,
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- 19 and seeing a fig-tree on the road-side He went up to it, but found nothing on it but leaves. “On you,” He said, “no fruit shall ever again grow.” And immediately the fig-tree withered away.
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When the disciples saw it they exclaimed in astonishment, “How instantaneously the fig-tree has withered away!”
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“I solemnly tell you,” said , “that if you have an unwavering , you shall not only perform such a miracle as this of the fig-tree, but that even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be thou lifted up and hurled into the sea,’ it shall be done;
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and everything, whatever it be, that you ask for in your prayers, if you have , you shall obtain.”
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He entered the Temple; and while He was teaching, the High Priests and the Elders of the people came to Him and asked Him, “By what authority are you doing these things? and who gave you this authority?”
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“And I also have a question to ask *you*,” replied , “and if you answer me, I in turn will tell you by what authority I do these things.
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- 25 John’s Baptism, whence was it?—had it a heavenly or a human origin?” So they debated the matter among themselves. “If we say ‘a heavenly origin,’” they argued, “he will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
- 26 and if we say ‘a human origin’ we have the people to , for they all hold to have been a Prophet.”
- 27 So they answered , “We do not .” “Nor do I tell you,” He replied, “by what authority I do these things.”
- 28 “But give me your judgement. There was a man who had two sons. He came to the elder of them, and said, “’My son, go and work in the vineyard to-day.’
- 29 “’I will not,’ he replied. “But afterwards he was sorry, and went.
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He came to the second and spoke in the same manner. His answer was, “’I will go, Sir.’ “But he did not go.
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Which of the two did as his father desired?” “The first,” they said. “I solemnly tell you,’ replied , “that the tax-gatherers and the notorious sinners are entering the Kingdom of in front of you.
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- 32 For came to you observing all sorts of ritual, and you put no in him: the tax-gatherers and the notorious sinners did put in him, and you, though you saw this example set you, were not even afterwards sorry so as to believe him.
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“Listen to another parable. There was a householder who planted a vineyard, made a fence round it, dug a wine-tank in it, and built a strong lodge; then let the place to vine-dressers, and went abroad.
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Isaiah 5:1-4 Matthew 25:14-15 Song of Solomon 8:11-12 Mark 12:1-12 Luke 20:9-19 Mark 13:34 Deuteronomy 16:18 Hosea 4:1 Jeremiah 19:3 Matthew 13:18 1 Kings 22:19 John 15:1 Malachi 2:4-9 Isaiah 1:10 Matthew 21:28 Luke 19:12 Deuteronomy 1:15-17 Matthew 23:2 Jeremiah 2:21 Deuteronomy 17:9-12 Psalm 80:8-16 Deuteronomy 33:8-10 - 34 When vintage-time approached, he sent his servants to the vine-dressers to receive his share of the grapes;
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but the vine-dressers seized the servants, and one they cruelly beat, one they killed, one they pelted with stones.
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Hebrews 11:36-37 2 Chronicles 36:15-16 Acts 7:52 Nehemiah 9:26 Matthew 5:12 2 Chronicles 16:10 Matthew 23:31-37 1 Kings 19:2 Jeremiah 26:21-24 1 Thessalonians 2:15-16 Jeremiah 2:30 1 Kings 18:13 1 Kings 22:24 Luke 13:33-34 1 Kings 18:4 Revelation 6:9 1 Kings 19:10 Jeremiah 25:3-7 2 Chronicles 24:21-22 -
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Again he sent another party of servants more numerous than the first; and these they treated in the same manner.
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Later still he sent to them his son, saying, “’They will respect my son.’
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- 38 “But the vine-dressers, when they saw the son, said to one another, “’Here is the heir: come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.’
- 39 “So they seized him, dragged him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
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When then the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine-dressers?”
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“He will put the wretches to a wretched death,” was the reply, “and will entrust the vineyard to other vine-dressers who will render the produce to him at the vintage season.”
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Acts 18:6 Acts 28:28 Matthew 21:43 Zechariah 12:12 Acts 15:7 Hebrews 12:25 Zechariah 11:8-10 Psalm 2:4-5 Malachi 4:1-6 Isaiah 49:5-7 Isaiah 5:5-7 Romans 15:9-18 Matthew 24:21-22 Psalm 2:9 Daniel 9:26 Zechariah 13:8 Hebrews 2:3 Matthew 23:35-38 Leviticus 26:14-46 Matthew 8:11-12 Matthew 3:12 Luke 17:32-37 1 Thessalonians 2:16 Deuteronomy 28:59-68 Acts 13:46-48 Luke 21:22-24 Matthew 22:6-7 Isaiah 66:19-21 Isaiah 65:15 Luke 13:28-29 Luke 19:41-44 Acts 28:8 Zechariah 14:2-3 Luke 14:23-24 Romans 9:1-11 - 42 “Have you never read in the Scriptures,” said , “’The Stone which the builders rejected has been made the Cornerstone: this Cornerstone came from the Lord, and is wonderful in our eyes’?
- 43 “That, I tell you, is the reason why the Kingdom of will be taken away from you, and given to a nation that will exhibit the power of it.
- 44 He who falls on this stone will be severely hurt; but he on whom it falls will be utterly crushed.”
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After listening to His parables the High Priests and the Pharisees perceived that He was speaking about them;
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but though they were eager to lay hands upon Him, they were afraid of the people, for by them He was regarded as a Prophet.
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