Mark 11
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The Triumphal Entry
1When # 11:1–11 Mt 21:1–11; Lk 19:28–44; Jn 12:12–19 they approached Jerusalem, # 11:1 Mt 23:37; Ac 8:1 at Bethphage and Bethany # 11:1 Mt 26:6; Lk 24:50; Jn 11:1,18; 12:1 near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples 2and told them, “Go into the village ahead of you. As soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. 3If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this? ’ say, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here right away.’ ”
4So they went and found a colt outside in the street, tied by a door. They untied it, 5and some of those standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt? ” 6They answered them just as Jesus had said; so they let them go.
7They brought the colt to Jesus and threw their clothes on it, and he sat on it. 8Many people spread their clothes on the road, # 11:8 Mk 8:27 and others spread leafy branches cut from the fields. # 11:8 Other mss read others were cutting leafy branches from the trees and spreading them on the road 9Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted:
Hosanna!
Blessed is he who comes
in the name # 11:9 Jn 10:25 of the Lord! # 11:9 Ps 118:26,# 11:9 Lk 1:42; Heb 6:14
10Blessed is the coming kingdom # 11:10 Mk 1:15; 9:1
of our father David! # 11:10 Lk 1:27; Ac 2:29; 4:25
Hosanna # 11:10 Mk 11:9 in the highest heaven!
11He went into Jerusalem # 11:11 Mt 23:37 and into the temple. # 11:11 Ac 21:26 After looking around at everything, since it was already late, he went out to Bethany # 11:11 Mk 11:1 with the Twelve.
The Barren Fig Tree Is Cursed
12The # 11:12–19 Mt 21:12–19; Lk 19:45–48 next day when they went out from Bethany, he was hungry. 13Seeing in the distance a fig # 11:13 Lk 6:44; Jn 1:48 tree with leaves, he went to find out if there was anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for it was not the season for figs. 14He said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit # 11:14 Mt 3:8; 7:16–21 from you again! ” # 11:14 Jr 8:13 And his disciples # 11:14 Mk 10:10 heard it.
Cleansing the Temple
15They came to Jerusalem, # 11:15 Mt 23:37 and he went into the temple # 11:15 Ac 21:26 and began to throw out those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money changers # 11:15 Jn 2:15 and the chairs of those selling doves, 16and would not permit anyone to carry goods through the temple. 17He was teaching them: “Is it not written, # 11:17 Mk 1:2; Ac 15:15 My house # 11:17 Lk 11:51; Jn 2:17 will be called a house of prayer # 11:17 Ac 12:5; 16:13 for all nations? # 11:17 Is 56:7 But you have made it a den of thieves! ” # 11:17 Jr 7:11,# 11:17 Jr 7:11
18The chief priests and the scribes # 11:18 Mt 2:4 heard it and started looking for a way to kill him. For they were afraid # 11:18 Ps 147:11; Pr 1:7; Rv 14:7 of him, because the whole crowd was astonished by his teaching.
19Whenever evening came, they would go out of the city.
The Barren Fig Tree Is Withered
20Early # 11:20–26 Mt 21:19–22 in the morning, as they were passing by, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots up. 21Then Peter # 11:21 Lk 6:14; Ac 10:32 remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, # 11:21 Jn 11:8 look! The fig tree that you cursed # 11:21 Jms 3:9 has withered.”
22Jesus replied to them, “Have faith in God. # 11:22 Mt 17:20 23Truly I tell you, # 11:23 Ps 72:19; Rv 22:21 if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt # 11:23 Ac 10:20 in his heart, but believes # 11:23 Jn 3:16; Ac 10:43; Rm 10:9; 1Pt 1:8–10 that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. # 11:23 Mk 9:23; Jn 11:22 24Therefore I tell you, everything you pray # 11:24 Mt 5:44; Ac 12:12 and ask for # 11:24 Jn 14:13; Jms 1:5 #— #believe that you have received # 11:24 Some mss read you receive; other mss read you will receive,# 11:24 Mt 7:8 it and it will be yours. 25And whenever you stand # 11:25 Lk 18:11 praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive # 11:25 Mt 6:12; 9:2 him, so that your Father # 11:25 Mt 5:16; Lk 11:13 in heaven # 11:25 Mt 6:1; Lk 12:33 will also forgive # 11:25 Ps 25:11; Mt 9:2 you your wrongdoing.” # 11:25 Some mss include v. 26: “But if you don’t forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your wrongdoing.”
The Authority of Jesus Challenged
27They # 11:27–33 Mt 21:23–27; Lk 20:1–8 came again to Jerusalem. # 11:27 Mt 23:37 As he was walking in the temple, # 11:27 Ac 21:26 the chief priests, the scribes, # 11:27 Mt 2:4 and the elders # 11:27 3Jn 1 came 28and asked him, “By what authority # 11:28 Mk 1:22 are you doing these things? Who gave you this authority to do these things? ”
29Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question; # 11:29 Mk 4:14 then answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. 30Was John’s baptism # 11:30 Lk 7:29; Ac 18:25; 19:3 from heaven or of human origin? Answer me.”
31They discussed it among themselves: “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Then why didn’t you believe # 11:31 1Jn 5:10 him? ’ 32But if we say, ‘Of human origin’ ” #— #they were afraid of the crowd, because everyone thought that John was truly a prophet. # 11:32 Mt 2:23; Ac 7:52 33So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.”
And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
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