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And they came to Jericho; and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great multitude, Bartimae'us, a blind beggar, the son of Timae'us, was sitting by the roadside.

And Jesus stopped and said, "Call him." And they called the blind man, saying to him, "Take heart; rise, he is calling you."

And when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Beth'phage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,

And they went away, and found a colt tied at the door out in the open street; and they untied it.

And they told them what Jesus had said; and they let them go.

And they brought the colt to Jesus, and threw their garments on it; and he sat upon it.

And many spread their garments on the road, and others spread leafy branches which they had cut from the fields.

And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons;

And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and sought a way to destroy him; for they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

And when evening came they went out of the city.

And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him,

and they said to him, "By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?"

And they argued with one another, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?'

So they answered Jesus, "We do not know." And Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things."

And they took him and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

Again he sent to them another servant, and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully.

And he sent another, and him they killed; and so with many others, some they beat and some they killed.

And they took him and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.

And they tried to arrest him, but feared the multitude, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them; so they left him and went away.

And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Hero'di-ans, to entrap him in his talk.