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If anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord needs him;' and immediately he will send him back here."
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They went away, and found a colt tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him.
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Some of those who stood there asked them, "What are you doing, untying the colt?"
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They said to them just as Jesus had said, and they let them go.
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They brought the colt to Jesus, and threw their garments on him, and Jesus sat on him.
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Many spread their garments on the way, and others were cutting down branches from the trees, and spreading them on the road.
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Those who went in front, and those who followed, cried, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
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Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is coming in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"
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Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
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The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry.
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Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.