4. So they went off and found a colt tethered at a gate outside on the street, and they untied it.
5. Some of the bystanders said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?”
6. They answered them just as Jesus had told them to, and they permitted them to do it.
7. So they brought the colt to Jesus and put their cloaks over it. And he sat on it.
8. Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields.
9. Those preceding him as well as those following kept crying out:“Hosanna!Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
10. Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is to come!Hosanna in the highest!”
11. He entered Jerusalem and went into the temple area. He looked around at everything and, since it was already late, went out to Bethany with the Twelve.
12. The next day as they were leaving Bethany he was hungry.
13. Seeing from a distance a fig tree in leaf, he went over to see if he could find anything on it. When he reached it he found nothing but leaves; it was not the time for figs.
14. And he said to it in reply, “May no one ever eat of your fruit again!” And his disciples heard it.
15. They came to Jerusalem, and on entering the temple area he began to drive out those selling and buying there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.
16. He did not permit anyone to carry anything through the temple area.