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Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields.
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Then those who went ahead and those who followed were shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!
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Blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor David! Hosanna in the highest heaven!"
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Then he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple; and when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
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On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry.
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Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see whether perhaps he would find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for 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.
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Then they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves;
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and he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple.
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He was teaching and saying, "Is it not written, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a den of robbers."
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And when the chief priests and the scribes heard it, they kept looking for a way to kill him; for they were afraid of him, because the whole crowd was spellbound by his teaching.