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Then they brought the donkey to Jesus and threw their robes on it, and He sat on it.
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Many people spread their robes on the road, and others spread leafy branches cut from the fields.
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Then those who went ahead and those who followed kept shouting: Hosanna ! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!
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Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest heaven!
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And He went into Jerusalem and into the temple complex. After looking around at everything, since it was already late, He went out to Bethany with the Twelve.
The Barren Fig Tree Is Cursed
12 The next day when they came out from Bethany, He was hungry.
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After seeing in the distance a fig tree with leaves, He went to find out if there was anything on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs.
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He said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" And His disciples heard it.
Cleansing the Temple Complex
15 They came to Jerusalem, and He went into the temple complex and began to throw out those buying and selling in the temple. He overturned the money changers' tables and the chairs of those selling doves,
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and would not permit anyone to carry goods through the temple complex.
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Then He began to teach them: "Is it not written, My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations ? But you have made it a den of thieves !"