English Standard Version

Matthew 21:9-15 English Standard Version (ESV)

9. And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”

10. And when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”

11. And the crowds said, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”

12. And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.

13. He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”

14. And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

15. But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant,