# Matthew 21

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/matthew/21

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples,
2. saying to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with a colt beside her. Untie them and bring them to me.
3. If anyone says anything to you, tell them, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them right away.”
4. This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet:
5. “Say to Daughter Zion, ‘Look, your king is coming to you, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”
6. The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them.
7. They brought the donkey and the colt and laid their cloaks on them, and he sat on them.
8. Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.
9. The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
10. When he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up and asked, “Who is this?”
11. The crowds answered, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth in Galilee.”
12. Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.
13. He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a den of robbers.”
14. 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 he did, and the children shouting in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant.
16. They said to him, “Do you hear what these children are saying?” Jesus replied, “Yes. Have you never read, ‘From the mouths of children and nursing infants you have brought forth praise’?”
17. Then he left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and he spent the night there.
18. Early in the morning, as he was returning to the city, he was hungry.
19. Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And at once the fig tree withered.
20. When the disciples saw this, they were amazed and asked, “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?”
21. Jesus answered them, “Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.
22. And whatever you ask for in prayer, if you believe, you will receive.”
23. When he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching and asked, “By what authority are you doing these things? And who gave you this authority?”
24. Jesus answered them, “I will also ask you one question. If you answer it for me, I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things.
25. John’s baptism—where did it come from? From heaven, or from human beings?” They discussed it among themselves: “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’
26. But if we say, ‘From human beings,’ we are afraid of the crowd, because they all regard John as a prophet.”
27. So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” And he said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.
28. But what do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’
29. ‘I do not want to,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went.
30. Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he did not go.
31. Which of the two did what his father wanted?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you.
32. For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even after you saw this, you did not change your minds and believe him.
33. Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away on a journey.
34. When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.
35. But the tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
36. Again he sent other servants, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way.
37. Finally he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.
38. But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.’
39. So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
40. Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”
41. They said to him, “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his fruit at harvest time.”
42. Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This came from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
43. Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation that produces its fruit.
44. Whoever falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and anyone it falls on will be crushed.”
45. When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew he was speaking about them.
46. They wanted to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowds, because the people regarded him as a prophet.

## Nearby chapters

[Matthew 20](https://www.lumin.faith/read/matthew/20.md)
[Matthew 22](https://www.lumin.faith/read/matthew/22.md)

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