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Themes in Matthew 21
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Themes in Matthew 21

Matthew 21:1

And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

Matthew 21:2

saying to them, "Go into the village before you, and right away you will find a donkey tied and a colt with her. Untie [them] [and] bring [them] to me.

Matthew 21:3

And if anyone says anything to you, you will say, 'The Lord {needs them},' and he will send them at once."

Matthew 21:4

Now this took place so that what was spoken through the prophet would be fulfilled, saying,

Matthew 21:5

"Say to the daughter of Zion, 'Behold, your king is coming to you, humble and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a pack animal.'"

Matthew 21:6

So the disciples went and did just as Jesus directed them,

Matthew 21:7

[and] brought the donkey and the colt and put their cloaks on them, and he sat on them.

Matthew 21:8

And a very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading [them] on the road.

Matthew 21:9

And the crowds who went ahead of him and the ones who followed were shouting, saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed [is] the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest [heaven]!"

Matthew 21:10

And [when] he entered into Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, "Who is this?"

Matthew 21:11

And the crowds were saying, "This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee!"

Matthew 21:12

And Jesus entered the temple [courts] and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who were selling doves.

Matthew 21:13

And he said to them, "It is written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"

Matthew 21:14

And the blind and the lame came up to him in the temple [courts] and he healed them.

Matthew 21:15

But [when] the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful [things] that he did, and the children shouting in the temple [courts] and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant.

Matthew 21:16

And they said to him, "Do you hear what these [children] are saying?" So Jesus said to them, "Yes, have you never read, 'Out of the mouths of children and nursing babies you have prepared for yourself praise'?"

Matthew 21:17

And leaving them, he went outside of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.

Matthew 21:18

Now early in the morning, [as he] was returning to the city, he was hungry.

Matthew 21:19

And seeing a single fig tree by the road, he went to it and found nothing on it except leaves only. And he said to it, "May there be no more fruit from you {forever}, and the fig tree withered at once.

Matthew 21:20

And [when they] saw [it], the disciples were astonished, saying, "How did the fig tree wither at once?"

Matthew 21:21

And Jesus answered [and] said to them, "Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will do not only [what was done to] the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Be lifted up and thrown into the sea," it will happen!

Matthew 21:22

And whatever you ask in prayer, [if you] believe, you will receive."

Matthew 21:23

And [after] he arrived at the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him [while he] was teaching, saying, "By what authority are you doing these [things]? And who gave you this authority?"

Matthew 21:24

And Jesus answered [and] said to them, "I also will ask you one question. If you tell [the answer] to me, I also will tell you by what authority I am doing these [things].

Matthew 21:25

From where was the baptism of John--from heaven or from men?" And they began to discuss [this] among themselves, saying, "If we say 'From heaven,' he will say to us, 'Why then did you not believe him?'

Matthew 21:26

But if we say, 'From men,' we are afraid of the crowd, because they all look upon John as a prophet."

Matthew 21:27

And they answered [and] said to Jesus, "We do not know." And he said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these [things].

Matthew 21:28

"Now what do you think? A man had two sons. [He] approached the first [and] said, 'Son, go work in the vineyard today.'

Matthew 21:29

And he answered [and] said, 'I do not want to!' But later [he] changed his mind [and] went.

Matthew 21:30

And [he] approached the second [and] said the same [thing]. So he answered [and] said, 'I [will], sir,' and he did not go.

Matthew 21:31

Which of the two did the will of [his] father?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going ahead of you into the kingdom of God!

Matthew 21:32

For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did believe him. And [when] you saw [it], you did not even change your minds later [so as] to believe in him.

Matthew 21:33

"Listen to another parable: There was a man--a master of a house--who planted a vineyard, and put a fence [around] it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey.

Matthew 21:34

And when the season of fruit drew near, he sent his slaves to the tenant farmers to collect his fruit.

Matthew 21:35

And the tenant farmers seized his slaves, [one of] whom they beat, and [one of] whom they killed, and [one of] whom they stoned.

Matthew 21:36

Again, he sent other slaves, more than the first [ones], and they did the same [thing] to them.

Matthew 21:37

So finally he sent his son to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

Matthew 21:38

But [when] the tenant farmers saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance!'

Matthew 21:39

And they seized him [and] threw [him] out of the vineyard and killed [him].

Matthew 21:40

Now when the master of the vineyard arrives, what will he do to those tenant farmers?"

Matthew 21:41

They said to him, "He will destroy those evil [men] completely and lease the vineyard to other tenant farmers who will give him the fruits in their season."

Matthew 21:42

Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, this has become {the cornerstone}. This came about from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?

Matthew 21:43

For this [reason], I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and will be given to a people who produce its fruits.

Matthew 21:44

And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and [the one] on whom it falls--it will crush him!"

Matthew 21:45

And [when] the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he was speaking about them,

Matthew 21:46

and [although they] wanted to arrest him, they were afraid of the crowds, because they looked upon him as a prophet.
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