8. Many spread their garments on the street. And others cut down branches off the trees and scattered them on the street.
9. Those who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: “Hosanna!‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’
10. Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is coming in the name of the Lord!Hosanna in the highest!”
11. Jesus entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. When He had looked around at everything, as the hour was now late, He went out to Bethany with the twelve.
12. On the next day when they had returned from Bethany, He was hungry.
13. Seeing from afar a fig tree with leaves, He went to see if perhaps He might find anything on it. When He came to it, He found nothing except leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
14. Jesus said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And His disciples heard it.
15. And they came to Jerusalem. Jesus went into the temple and began to drive out those who sold and bought in the temple, and He overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those who sold doves.
16. And He would not allow anyone to carry any vessel through the temple.
17. And He taught them, and said, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”
18. The scribes and chief priests heard it and looked for a way to kill Him. For they feared Him, because all the people were astonished at His teaching.