8. Many spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread branches cut from the fields.
9. Those going before and those following kept shouting, “Hoshia-na! Baruch ha-ba b’shem Adonai! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!
10. Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hoshia-na in the highest!”
11. And He entered Jerusalem and went into the Temple. After looking around at everything, He went out to Bethany with the Twelve, since it was already late.
12. The next day, when they had left Bethany, He became hungry.
13. Seeing from a distance a fig tree in leaf, He went to see if He would find any fruit on it. When He came up to it, He found nothing except leaves, because it wasn’t the season for figs.
14. And He said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” And His disciples were listening.
15. Then they came to Jerusalem. And He entered the Temple and started to drive out those selling and buying in the Temple. He overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those selling doves,