Matthew 21:6-16

Christian Standard Bible

⁶ The disciples went and did just as Jesus directed them. ⁷ They brought the donkey and the colt; then they laid their clothes on them, and he sat on them. ⁸ A very large crowd spread their clothes on the road; others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road. ⁹ Then the crowds who went ahead of him and those who followed shouted:

¹⁰ When he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in an uproar, saying, “Who is this?” ¹¹ The crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus^(B) from Nazareth in Galilee.”

Cleansing the Temple

¹² Jesus went into the temple^[b](C) and threw out all those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.^{(D) 13} He said to them, “It is written, my house will be called a house of prayer,^[c] but you are making it a den of thieves!”^(E)[d]

Children Praise Jesus

¹⁴ The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. ¹⁵ When the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonders that he did and the children shouting in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant ¹⁶ and said to him, “Do you hear what these children are saying?”

Jesus replied, “Yes, have you never read: