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And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down boughs from the trees and strewed them in the way.
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And they that went before and they that followed cried, saying: Hosanna: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
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Blessed be the kingdom of our father David that cometh: Hosanna in the highest.
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And he entered into Jerusalem, into the temple: and having viewed all things round about, when now the eventide was come, he went out to Bethania with the twelve.
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And the next day when they came out from Bethania, he was hungry.
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And when he had seen afar off a fig tree having leaves, he came, if perhaps he might find any thing on it. And when he was come to it, he found nothing but leaves. For it was not the time for figs.
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And answering he said to it: May no man hereafter eat fruit of thee any more for ever! And his disciples heard it.
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And they came to Jerusalem. And when he was entered into the temple, he began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple: and over threw the tables of the moneychangers and the chairs of them that sold doves.
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And he suffered not that any man should carry a vessel through the temple.
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And he taught, saying to them: Is it not written: My house shall be called the house of prayer to all nations, but you have made it a den of thieves.
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Which when the chief priests and the scribes had heard, they sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because the whole multitude was in admiration at his doctrine.