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1 When they came near to Yerushalayim and arrived at Beit-Pagey on the Mount of Olives, then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach sent two talmidim, 2 saying to them, Go into the shtetl ahead of you, and immediately you will find a donkey having been tied and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to me. 3 And if anyone should say to you anything, you say, HaAdon has need of them. And he will send them immediately. 4 And this took place in order that might be fulfilled the thing spoken by the Navi (Prophet), saying: 5 IMRU LBAT TZIYON! (Tell the Daughter of Zion!) Hinei! Your Melech comes, ANI VROCHEV AL CHAMOR VAL AYIR BEN ATONOT*(poor, humble and riding on a donkey and upon a colt, the foal of donkeys). 6 And having accomplished just what Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had commanded them, 7 they brought the donkey and the colt and they put their garments upon them, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach sat upon them. 8 And the very large multitudes spread out their garments on the road, and others were cutting lulavim from the trees, and were spreading them out on the road. 9 And the multitudes going before him and the multitudes following after him were crying out, saying, HOSHAN NAH†(Save now) to Ben Dovid! BARUCH HABAH B'SHEM ADONOI! Hoshannah in the Highest! 10 And when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had entered into Yerushalayim, the whole city was stirred, saying, Who is this!?! 11 And the multitudes were saying, This is Yehoshua HaNavi! From Natzeret in the Galil.
12 And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach arrived at the Beis Hamikdash and expelled the ones selling and buying in the Beis Hamikdash. And he turned over the tishen (tables) of the machalifei hakesafim (money changers) and the chairs of those selling the yonim (doves). 13 And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, It has been written, BEITI BEIT TEFILLAH YIKAREI‡(My House shall be called a House of Prayer), but you are making it into a MEARAT PARITZIM§(den of robbers).
14 And ivrim (blind persons) and pisechim (lame persons) came to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach in the Beis Hamikdash, and he brought refuah to them. 15 And the Rashei Hakohanim and the Sofrim were indignant, having seen the niflaot (wonders) which Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach accomplished and the yeladim shouting in the Beis Hamikdash, Hoshannah to the Ben Dovid.* 16 And they said to Moshiach, Do you hear what these are saying? And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Ken. Have you never read, MIPI OLLELIM V'YONKIM YISSADETAH OZ†(From the lips of children and infants You ordained strength, praise)? 17 And having left them, he went out of the city to Beit-Anyah (Bethany) and spent the night there.
18 Now going up early into the city, he was hungry. 19 And observing the etz teenah (fig tree) on the way, he went up to it and found nothing on it, except leaves, and he says to it, No longer from you will there ever be pri (fruit)! And the etz teenah withered then and there.
20 And observing this, the talmidim were astounded, saying, How did the etz teenah instantly wither? 21 And he said in reply, Omein, I say to you, if you have emunah and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the etz teenah, but also if you say to this mountain, Be lifted up and be thrown into the sea, it will happen. 22 And, when you daven, all things whatever for which you may make techinnah (petition, supplication) with emunah, you will receive.
23 And after Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had gone into the Beis Hamikdash, while he was bringing forth his torah, the Rashei Hakohanim and the Zekenim of the people approached him, saying, By what samchut (authority) do you do these things? And who granted you this samchut? 24 And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply to them, I also will ask you a question, which, if you will tell me, I also will tell you by what samchut I do these things… 25 The tevilah in the mikveh mayim of Yochanan, it was from where, from Shomayim or from Bnei Adam? And they were discussing it among themselves, saying, If we say, From Shomayim, he will say to us, Why then do you not believe him? 26 But if we say, From Bnei Adam, we fear the multitude, for everyone considers Yochanan a Navi. 27 And in reply to him, they said, We do not have daas. And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Neither will I tell you by what samchut I do these things.
28 What do you think? A man had two banim (sons). And having approached the rishon (first), the man said, Beni (my son), go today and work in the kerem (vineyard). 29 But the first son said in reply, I will not. But later, having changed his mind, he went. 30 And having approached the other son, the man spoke similarly. But the second son, in reply, said, I will go, Adoni. Yet he did not go. 31 Which of the two did the ratzon haAv (the will of the Father)? They say, The rishon (the first). Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Omein, I say to you, that the mochesim (tax-collectors) and the zonot (prostitutes) are going in ahead of you into the Malchut Hashem. 32 For Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva came to you in the Derech Tzidkat Hashem(Way of Righteousness), and you did not believe him. But the mochesim and the zonot believed him. But you, even after you saw, did not change your mind‡ and believe him.
33 Listen to another mashal. There was a man, a Baal Bayit, who planted a kerem (vineyard). And he put a fence around it, and he dug a yekev (winepress) in it, and built a migdal (tower) and leased it to koremim (vine-keepers) and departed. 34 And when the time of the Katsir (Harvest) came, the Baal Bayit sent his servants to the koremim to receive the pri (fruit). 35 And the koremim, having seized his servants, one they beat, another they killed, and another they stoned. 36 And the Baal Bayit sent other servants, more than the rishonim (first ones), and the koremim did the same thing to them. 37 Lemaskana (finally, at last), the Baal Bayit sent to the koremim his Ben, saying, They will respect my Ben. 38 And when the koremim saw the Ben, they said among themselves, This is the Bechor (Firstborn), the Yoresh (Heir). Come, let us kill him and let us take possession of his bechorah (inheritance). 39 And having seized the Ben, they threw the Ben out of the kerem and they killed him. 40 Therefore, when the Baal HaKerem (Owner of the Vineyard) comes, what will he do to those koremim (vine keepers)? 41 They say to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Those resha'im (evil-doers) the Baal HaKerem will bring to a terrible mavet, and the Kerem the Baal HaKerem will lease to other koremim, who will render unto the Baal HaKerem the PRI B'ITO§(fruit in its season).
42 Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Have you never heard in the Kitvei Hakodesh (Holy Scriptures), EVEN MAASU HABONIM HAYTAH LEROSH PINAH; MEIES HASHEM HAYTAH ZOT HI NIFLAT BEINEINU*(The Stone which the Builders rejected, this one has become Head of the Corner; this came about from the L-rd, and it is marvelous in our eyes)? 43 For this reason, I say to you, the Malchut Hashem will be taken from you and it will be given to a people that produces its pri. 44 And the one having fallen on this EVEN† (Stone)‡ will be crushed; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.
45 And having heard Moshiachʼs mashal, the Rashei Hakohanim and the Perushim understood that he spoke about them. 46 And seeking to arrest him, they were afraid of the multitudes, vi-bahlt (since) the multitudes considered him a Navi.
* 21:5 Isa 62:11; Zech 9:9 † 21:9 Ps 118:25-26 ‡ 21:13 Isa 56:7 § 21:13 Jer 7:11 * 21:15 Moshiach † 21:16 Ps 8:3 ‡ 21:32 i.e., make teshuva § 21:41 Ps 1:3 * 21:42 Ps 118:22-23 † 21:44 Dan 2:35; Isa 8:14-15 ‡ 21:44 Moshiach