MODERN LITERAL VERSION

21:1 And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, toward the Mountain of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,
21:2 saying to them, Go into the village that is before you* and immediately you* will find a donkey tied and a colt with her. Loose them and lead them to me.
21:3 And if anyone says anything to you*, You* will say, The Lord has need of them, and immediately he will send them.
21:4 Now this all has happened, in order that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled, saying,
21:5 ‘Tell the daughter of Zion, Behold, your King is coming to you, meek and is mounted upon a donkey and a colt, the son of a donkey.' {Is. 62:11 & Zech. 9:9}
21:6 And the disciples having gone and having done just-as Jesus commanded them,
21:7 they led the donkey and the colt and placed their garments upon them, and he sat upon them.
21:8 And most of the crowd spread their garments in the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them in the road.

21:9 And the crowds that precede him and who are following him, cried, saying, ‘Hosanna to the son of David. He who is coming in the name of the Lord is blessed.' Hosanna in the highest.' {Ps. 118:25-26}
21:10 And when he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, Who is this?

21:11 And the crowds said, This is Jesus, the prophet, from Nazareth of Galilee.
{Mk 11:12-18 & Mt 21:18, 19, 12, 13 & Lk 19:45-48 Road from Bethany to Jerusalem Mon.}

21:12 And Jesus entered into the temple of God and cast out all those who are selling and buying in the temple and turned over the tables of the brokers and the chairs of those selling the doves;
21:13 and he says to them, It has been written, My house will be called a house of prayer, but you* made* it a den of robbers. {Is. 56:7 & Jer. 7:11}

21:14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
21:15 But when the high-priests and the scribes saw the marvelous things that he did and the children crying in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the son of David.
They were indignant,
21:16 and said to him, Do you hear what they are saying?
And Jesus says to them, Yes. Have you* never* read, ‘You have perfected praise out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies.' {Ps. 8:2}
21:17 And he left them and went forth outside the city to Bethany and camped there.

21:18 Now in the morning as he was leading them back to the city, he hungered.
21:19 And seeing a fig tree upon the road, he came upon it and found nothing in it, except leaves only, and he says to it, Let it happen that there is no fruit from you any longer, forever. And instantly the fig tree dried up.
{Mk 11:19-26 & Mt 21:20-22 & Lk 21:37-38 Road from Bethany to Jerusalem Tues.}

21:20 And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, How did the fig tree instantly dry up?

21:21 And Jesus answering, said to them, Assuredly I say to you*, If you* have faith and do not doubt, you* will not only do the miracle of the fig tree, but even if you* say to this mountain, Be lifted up and cast yourself into the sea, it will happen.
21:22 And all things, as many things as you* may ask in prayer, and believing, you* will receive.

21:23 And when he had come into the temple, the high-priests and the elders of the people came to him, as he was teaching, saying, By what authority are you doing these things? And who gave you this authority?

21:24 And Jesus answering, said to them, I will also ask you* one question, which if you* tell me, then I will also tell you* by what authority I am doing these things.
21:25 The immersion* of John, where was it from, heaven or from men?
And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we say, From heaven; he will say to us, Then * why did you* not believe him?
21:26 But if we say, From men; we fear the crowd; for* all hold John as a prophet.
21:27 And they answered Jesus and said, We do not know.
He also said to them, Nor do I tell you* by what authority I am doing these things.

21:28 But what do you* think? A man had two children, and he came to the first and said, Child, go work today in my vineyard.

21:29 And answering, he said, I will not, but later he regretted it and went.

21:30 And he came to the second and said likewise*. And answering, he said, I will go lord and did not go.
21:31 Which one out of the two did the will of his father?
They say, The first.
Jesus says to them, Assuredly I say to you* that the tax collectors and the harlots precede you* into the kingdom of God.
21:32 For* John came to you* in the way of righteousness and you* did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the harlots believed him, and when you* saw it, you* did not even regret it later, that you* might believe him.

21:33 Hear another parable: there was a certain man who was a householder, who planted a vineyard and placed a fence around it and shoveled a winepress in it and built a tower and rented it out to farmers and went abroad.
21:34 And when the time of the fruits drew near, he sent his bondservants to the farmers, to receive his fruits.
21:35 And then the farmers took his bondservants and whipped one but killed another and stoned another.
21:36 Again, he sent other bondservants more-than the first and they did to them likewise*.
21:37 But later he sent to them his son, saying, They will revere my son.
21:38 But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir. Come-here. We should kill him and we might hold-onto his inheritance.
21:39 And they took him and cast him forth outside the vineyard and killed him.
21:40 Therefore, whenever the lord of the vineyard comes, what shall he do to those farmers?

21:41 They say to him, He will evilly destroy those evil men and will rent the vineyard to other farmers, who will give to him the fruits at their seasons.

21:42 Jesus says to them, Have you* never* read in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected*, this has become the head of the corner; this has become from the Lord and it is marvelous in our eyes? {Ps. 118:22f}
21:43 Because of this, I say to you*, The kingdom of God will be taken away from you* and will be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.
21:44 And he who falls upon this stone will be shattered, but upon whomever it will fall, it will smash him.
21:45 And when the high-priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he spoke concerning them.
21:46 And seeking to take-hold of him, but they feared the crowds, since they held him as a prophet.