﻿Mark.
Chapter 11.
As they approached Jerusalem, near Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples 
and said to them, “Go into the village ahead of you. As soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there that no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it. 
If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here at once.’” 
They went and found a colt tied outside by a doorway in the street, and they untied it. 
Some of those standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” 
They answered just as Jesus had told them, and the people let them go. 
They brought the colt to Jesus and put their cloaks on it, and he sat on it. 
Many spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread leafy branches they had cut from the fields. 
Those going ahead and those following were crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! 
Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!” 
Jesus entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. After looking around at everything, he went out to Bethany with the Twelve, since it was already late. 
The next day, as they were leaving Bethany, he was hungry. 
Seeing a fig tree in leaf from a distance, he went to see whether he might find anything on it. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. 
He said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” His disciples heard him. 
They came to Jerusalem. Jesus entered the temple and began to drive out those selling and buying there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves, 
and he would not allow anyone to carry any object through the temple. 
He taught them, saying, “Is it not written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.” 
The chief priests and the scribes heard this and sought a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was astonished at his teaching. 
Whenever evening came, they would go out of the city. 
In the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots. 
Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered.” 
Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. 
Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, will have it. 
Therefore I tell you, whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. 
And whenever you stand praying, forgive if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.” 
“But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.” 
They came to Jerusalem again. While Jesus was walking in the temple, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came to him 
and asked him, “By what authority are you doing these things? Or who gave you this authority to do them?” 
Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. 
Was John's baptism from heaven or from human beings? Answer me.” 
They discussed it among themselves, saying, “What should we say? If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’ 
But should we say, ‘From human beings’?” They feared the crowd, for everyone regarded John as truly a prophet. 
So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.” 
