1 Quando se aproximaram de Jerusalém e chegaram a Betfagé, ao monte das Oliveiras, enviou Jesus dois discípulos,2 dizendo-lhes: Ide à aldeia que está em frente de vós, e achareis logo uma jumenta presa, e com ela um jumentinho: desprendei-a, e trazei-mos.3 Se alguém vos disser alguma coisa, respondei-lhe que o Senhor precisa deles; e logo deixará trazê-los.4 Ora isto aconteceu, para se cumprir o que foi dito pelo profeta:5 Dizei à filha de Sião: Eis que vem a ti o teu rei, Manso e montado em uma jumenta, E em um jumentinho, filho de jumenta.6 Indo os discípulos, fizeram como Jesus lhes ordenara;7 trouxeram a jumenta e o jumentinho, puseram sobre eles as capas, e fizeram-no montar.8 A maior parte da multidão estendia as suas capas pela estrada, e outros cortavam ramos de árvores e os espalhavam no caminho.9 As turbas que lhe precediam e as que o seguiam, clamavam: Hosana ao filho de Davi! Bendito aquele que vem em nome do Senhor! Hosana nas maiores alturas!10 Ao entrar ele em Jerusalém, agitou-se a cidade inteira, perguntando: Quem é este?11 A multidão respondia: Este é Jesus, o profeta de Nazaré da Galiléia.12 Jesus entrou no templo, expulsou todos os que ali vendiam e compravam, derribou as mesas dos cambistas, e as cadeiras dos que vendiam as pombas;13 e disse-lhes: Está escrito: A minha casa será chamada casa de oração; vós, porém, a fazeis covil de salteadores.14 No templo cegos e coxos o procuraram, e ele os curou.15 Mas vendo os principais sacerdotes e os escribas as maravilhas que ele fez, e os meninos que clamavam no templo: Hosana ao filho de Davi, indignaram-se,16 e perguntaram-lhe: Ouves o que estes estão dizendo? Respondeu-lhes Jesus: Sim; nunca lestes: Da boca de pequeninos e crianças de peito tiraste perfeito louvor?17 Tendo-os deixado, saiu da cidade para Betânia, onde passou a noite.18 Pela manhã, ao voltar à cidade, teve fome.19 Vendo uma figueira à beira do caminho, dela se aproximou, e não achou nela senão folhas; e disse-lhe: Nunca jamais nasça fruto de ti. No mesmo instante secou a figueira.20 Vendo isto os discípulos, maravilharam-se e perguntaram: Como é que repentinamente secou a figueira?21 Respondeu-lhes Jesus: Em verdade vos digo que se tiverdes fé e não duvidardes, fareis não só o que foi feito à figueira, mas até se disserdes a este monte: Levanta-te e lança-te no mar, isso será feito;22 e tudo o que com fé pedirdes em vossas orações, haveis de receber. parábola dos dois filhos23 Tendo Jesus entrado no templo, quando estava ensinando, vieram a ele os principais sacerdotes e os anciãos do povo, perguntando: Com que autoridade fazes estas coisas? quem te deu tal autoridade?24 Respondeu-lhes Jesus: Também eu vos farei uma só pergunta; se me responderdes, então vos direi com que autoridade faço estas coisas.25 Donde era o batismo de João? do céu ou dos homens? Eles discorriam entre si: Se dissermos: Do céu, dir-nos-á: Por que, então, não lhe destes crédito?26 Mas se dissermos: Dos homens, tememos o povo; porque todos consideram João como profeta.27 Responderam a Jesus: Não sabemos. Ele por sua vez lhes declarou: Nem eu vos digo com que autoridade faço estas coisas.28 Mas que vos parece? Um homem tinha dois filhos; chegando ao primeiro, disse: Filho, vai trabalhar hoje na minha vinha.29 Ele respondeu: Irei, senhor; e não foi.30 Chegando ao segundo, disse-lhe o mesmo. Porém este respondeu: Não quero; mais tarde, tocado de arrependimento, foi.31 Qual dos dois fez a vontade do pai? Responderam eles: O segundo. Declarou-lhes Jesus: Em verdade vos digo que os publicanos e as meretrizes entrarão primeiro do que vós no reino de Deus.32 Pois João veio a vós no caminho da justiça, e não lhe destes crédito, mas os publicanos e as meretrizes lho deram; e vós, vendo isto, nem vos arrependestes depois, para lhe dardes crédito.33 Ouvi outra parábola. Havia um proprietário, que plantou uma vinha, cercou-a com uma sebe, cavou ali um lagar, edificou uma torre e arrendou-a a uns lavradores, e partiu para outro país.34 Ao aproximar-se o tempo dos frutos, enviou os seus servos aos lavradores, para receber os frutos que lhe tocavam.35 Estes, agarrando os servos, feriram um, mataram outro, e a outro apedrejaram.36 Enviou ainda outros servos em maior número; e trataram-nos do mesmo modo.37 Por último enviou-lhes seu filho, dizendo: Terão respeito a meu filho.38 Mas os lavradores, vendo-o, disseram entre si: Este é o herdeiro; vinde, matemo-lo e apoderemo-nos da sua herança;39 e agarrando-o, lançaram-no fora da vinha e mataram-no.40 Quando, pois, vier o senhor da vinha, que fará àqueles lavradores?41 Responderam-lhe: Fará perecer horrivelmente a estes malvados, e arrendará a vinha a outros, que lhe darão os frutos no tempo próprio.42 Perguntou-lhes Jesus: Nunca lestes nas Escrituras: A pedra que os edificadores rejeitaram, Essa foi posta como a pedra angular; Isto foi feito pelo Senhor, E é maravilhoso aos nossos olhos?43 Portanto vos declaro que o reino de Deus vos será tirado e oferecido a uma nação que dará os frutos dele.44 O que cair sobre esta pedra, far-se-á em pedaços; mas aquele sobre quem ela cair, será reduzido a pó.45 Os principais sacerdotes e os fariseus, ouvindo estas parábolas, perceberam que era deles que Jesus falava;46 e ainda que procurassem prendê-lo, temeram o povo, porque este o considerava como profeta.

1 When they came near Jerusalem and had reached Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples on ahead and2 said to them,"Go into the village ahead of you. At once you will find a donkey tied up and a colt with it. Untie them, and bring them to me.3 If anyone says anything to you, tell him, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and that person will send them at once."4 Now this happened to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet when he said,5 "Tell the daughter of Zion,‘Look, your king is coming to you! He is humble and mounted on a donkey,even on a colt of a donkey.’"6 So the disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them.7 They brought the donkey and the colt and put their coats on them, and he sat upon them.8 Many people in the crowd spread their own coats on the road, while others began cutting down branches from the trees and spreading them on the road.9 Both the crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed him kept shouting, "Hosanna to the Son of David! How blessed is the one who comesin the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven!"10 When he came into Jerusalem, the whole city was trembling with excitement. The people were asking, "Who is this?"11 The crowds kept saying, "This is the prophet Jesus, the man from Nazareth in Galilee."12 Then Jesus went into the temple, threw out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and overturned the moneychangers’ tables and the chairs of those who sold doves.13 He told them,"It is written, ‘My house is to be called a house of prayer,’but you are turning it into a hideoutfor bandits!"14 Blind and lame people came to him in the temple, and he healed them.15 But when the high priests and the scribes saw the amazing things that he had done and the children shouting in the temple, "Hosanna to the Son of David," they became furious16 and asked him, "Do you hear what these people are saying?"Jesus said to them,"Yes! Haven't you ever read, ‘From the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have created praise’?"17 Then he left them and went out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.18 In the morning, as Jesus was returning to the city, he became hungry.19 Seeing a fig tree by the roadside, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it,"May fruit never come from you again!" And immediately the fig tree dried up.20 When the disciples saw this, they were amazed and said, "How did the fig tree dry up so quickly?"21 Jesus answered them,"Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you be able to do what has been done to the fig tree, but you will also say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and it will happen.22 You will receive whatever you ask for in prayer, if you believe."23 Then Jesus went into the temple. While he was teaching, the high priests and the elders of the people came to him and asked, "By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?"24 Jesus answered them,"I, too, will ask you one question.If you answer it for me, I will also tell you by what authority I am doing these things.25 Where did John's authority to baptizecome from? From heaven or from humans?"They began discussing this among themselves, saying, "If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Then why didn't you believe him?’26 But if we say, ‘From humans,’ we are afraid of the crowd, for all regard John as a prophet."27 So they said to Jesus, "We don't know."He in turn told them,"Then I won't 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 His sonreplied, ‘I don't want to,’ but later he changed his mind and went.30 Then the fatherwent to the other sonand told him the same thing. He replied, ‘I will,sir,’ but he didn't go.31 Which of the two did the father's will?"They answered, "The first."Jesus said to them,"Truly I tell you, tax collectors and prostitutes will get into God's kingdom ahead of you.32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, but you didn't believe him. The tax collectors and prostitutes believed him. But even when you saw that, you didn't change your mindsat last and believe him."33 "Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a wall around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went abroad.34 When harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenant farmers to collect his produce.35 But the farmers took his servants and beat one, killed another, and attacked another with stones.36 Again, he sent other servants to them, a greater number than the first, but the tenant farmerstreated them the same way.37 Finally, he sent his son to them, thinking, ‘They will respect my son.’38 But when the tenant farmers saw his son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come on, let's kill him and get his inheritance!’39 So they grabbed him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.40 Now when the owner of the vineyard returns, what will he do to those farmers?"41 They said to him, "He will put those horrible men to a horrible death. Then he will lease the vineyard to other farmers who will give him his produce at harvest time."42 Jesus said to them,"Have you never read in the Scriptures,‘The stone that the builders rejectedhas become the cornerstone. This was the Lord's doing,and it is amazing in our eyes’?43 That is why I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce fruit for it.44 The person who falls over this stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush anyone on whom it falls."45 When the high priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he was talking about them.46 Although they wanted to arrest him, they were afraid of the crowds, for they considered him a prophet.