6. And they told them what Jesus had said, and they let them go.
7. And they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it, and he sat on it.
8. And many spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields.
9. And those who went before and those who followed were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
10. Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!”
11. And he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. And when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
12. On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry.
13. And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
14. And he said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it.
15. And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.
16. And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple.
17. And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”
18. And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching.