Gospel According to Matthew - Modern Literal Version

Gospel According to Matthew (MLV)

Matthew 21)

^21:1 And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, toward the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,^21:2 saying to them, Go into the village that is opposite of you* and immediately you* will find a donkey tied and a colt with her: loose them and bring them to me.^21:3 And if anyone says anything to you*, You* will say, The Lord has need of them; and immediately he will send them.^21:4 Now this all happened, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, ^21:5 You* tell the daughter of Zion, Behold, your King is coming to you, meek and is mounted upon an donkey and a colt the offspring of a donkey. {Is. 62.11 & Zech. 9.9}^21:6 And the disciples went and having done just-as Jesus commanded them,^21:7 and brought the donkey and the colt and placed their garments on them; and he sat on them.^21:8 And most of the crowd spread their garments in the way; and others cut branches from the trees and spread them in the way.^21:9 And the crowds that went before him and who followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the son of David: He who is coming in the name of the Lord is blessed; Hosanna in the highest.^21:10 And when he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, Who is this?^21:11 And the crowds said, This is Jesus, the prophet, from Nazareth of Galilee.

^21:12 And Jesus entered into the temple of God and cast out all those who sold and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold the doves;^21:13 and he says to them, It has been written, My house will be called a house of prayer: but you* made it a den of robbers. {Is. 56:7 & Jer. 7:11}^21:14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.^21:15 But when the high-priests and the scribes saw the marvelous things that he did and the children crying in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the son of David. They were indignant,^21:16 and said to him, Do you hear what these are saying?

And Jesus says to them, Yes. Did you* never read, You have perfected praise out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies. {Ps. 8:2}^21:17 And he left them and went forth outside the city to Bethany and lodged there.

^21:18 Now in the morning as he returned to the city, he hungered.^21:19 And seeing a fig tree by the way, he came to it and found nothing on it, except leaves only; and he says to it, Let there be no more fruit from you forever. And instantly the fig tree withered away.

^21:20 And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, How did the fig tree instantly wither away?

^21:21 And Jesus answered and said to them, Truly I say to you*. If you* have faith and do not doubt, you* will do not only the miracle of the fig tree, but even if you* say to this mountain, Be taken up and cast into the sea, it will happen.^21:22 And all things, whatever you* will ask in prayer, believing, you* will receive.

^21:23 And when he had come into the temple, the high-priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching and saying, By what authority do you do these things? And who gave you this authority?

^21:24 And Jesus answered and said to them, I also will ask you* one _<31>question, which if you* tell me, then I will tell you* also by what authority I do these things.^21:25 The immersion* of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?

And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we should say, From heaven; he will say to us, Then why did you* not believe him?^21:26 But if we should say, From men; we fear the crowd; for* all hold John as a prophet.

^21:27 And they answered Jesus and said, We do not know.

He also said to them, Nor do I tell you* by what authority I do these things.

^21:28 But what do you* think? A man had two children; and he came to the first and said, Child, go work today in my vineyard.

^21:29 And he answered and said, I will not: but afterward he regretted it and went.

^21:30 And he came to the second and said likewise. And he answered and said, I will go, lord and did not go.^21:31 Which of the two did the will of his father?

They say, The first.

Jesus says to them, Truly I say to you*, that the tax collectors and the harlots will go into the kingdom of God before you*.^21:32 For* John came to you* in the way of righteousness and you* did not believe him; but the tax collectors and the harlots believed him and you*, when you* saw it, did not even regret it afterward, that you* might believe him.

^21:33 Hear another parable: There was a certain man who was a householder, who planted a vineyard and placed a fence around it and dug in it a winepress in it and built a tower and rented it out to vine-dressers and left the country.^21:34 And when the season of the fruits drew near, he sent his bondservants to the vine-dressers, to receive his fruits.^21:35 And then the vine-dressers took his bondservants and beat one and killed another and stoned another.^21:36 Again, he sent other bondservants more than the first and they did to them likewise.^21:37 But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, They will respect my son.^21:38 But the vine-dressers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him and hold on to his inheritance.^21:39 And they took him and cast him forth outside the vineyard and killed him.^21:40 When therefore the lord of the vineyard will come, what shall he do to those vine-dressers?

^21:41 They say to him, He will miserably destroy those miserable men and will rent the vineyard to other vine-dressers, who will render him the fruits in their seasons.

^21:42 Jesus says to them, Did you* never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected after testing, this has become the head of the corner; this was from the Lord and it is marvelous in our eyes? {Ps. 118.22f}^21:43 Because of this, I say to you*, The kingdom of God will be taken away from you* and will be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.^21:44 And he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces: but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him like* dust.^21:45 And when the high-priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he spoke about them.^21:46 And when they sought to lay hold on him, they feared the crowds, since they held him as a prophet.

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