Matthew

光荣地进耶路撒冷

1耶稣和门徒将近耶路撒冷，到了伯法其，在橄榄山那里。

2耶稣就打发两个门徒，对他们说：「你们往对面村子里去，必看见一匹驴拴在那里，还有驴驹同在一处；你们解开，牵到我这里来。

3若有人对你们说什么，你们就说：『主要用它。』那人必立时让你们牵来。

4这事成就是要应验先知的话，说：

5要对锡安的居民说：看哪，你的王来到你这里， 是温柔的，又骑着驴， 就是骑着驴驹子。」

6门徒就照耶稣所吩咐的去行，

7牵了驴和驴驹来，把自己的衣服搭在上面，耶稣就骑上。

8众人多半把衣服铺在路上；还有人砍下树枝来铺在路上。

9前行后随的众人喊着说：和散那归于大卫的子孙！ 奉主名来的是应当称颂的！ 高高在上和散那！

10耶稣既进了耶路撒冷，合城都惊动了，说：「这是谁？」

11众人说：「这是加利利拿撒勒的先知耶稣。」

洁净圣殿

12耶稣进了 神的殿，赶出殿里一切做买卖的人，推倒兑换银钱之人的桌子，和卖鸽子之人的凳子，

13对他们说：「经上记着说：我的殿必称为祷告的殿， 你们倒使它成为贼窝了。」

14在殿里有瞎子、瘸子到耶稣跟前，他就治好了他们。

15祭司长和文士看见耶稣所行的奇事，又见小孩子在殿里喊着说：「和散那归于大卫的子孙！」就甚恼怒，

16对他说：「这些人所说的，你听见了吗？」耶稣说：「是的。经上说『你从婴孩和吃奶的口中完全了赞美』的话，你们没有念过吗？」

17于是离开他们，出城到伯大尼去，在那里住宿。

咒诅无花果树

18早晨回城的时候，他饿了，

19看见路旁有一棵无花果树，就走到跟前，在树上找不着什么，不过有叶子，就对树说：「从今以后，你永不结果子。」那无花果树就立刻枯干了。

20门徒看见了，便希奇说：「无花果树怎么立刻枯干了呢？」

21耶稣回答说：「我实在告诉你们，你们若有信心，不疑惑，不但能行无花果树上所行的事，就是对这座山说：『你挪开此地，投在海里！』也必成就。

22你们祷告，无论求什么，只要信，就必得着。」

质问耶稣的权柄

23耶稣进了殿，正教训人的时候，祭司长和民间的长老来问他说：「你仗着什么权柄做这些事？给你这权柄的是谁呢？」

24耶稣回答说：「我也要问你们一句话，你们若告诉我，我就告诉你们我仗着什么权柄做这些事。

25约翰的洗礼是从哪里来的？是从天上来的？是从人间来的呢？」他们彼此商议说：「我们若说『从天上来』，他必对我们说：『这样，你们为什么不信他呢？』

26若说『从人间来』，我们又怕百姓，因为他们都以约翰为先知。」

27于是回答耶稣说：「我们不知道。」耶稣说：「我也不告诉你们我仗着什么权柄做这些事。」

两个儿子的比喻

28又说：「一个人有两个儿子。他来对大儿子说：『我儿，你今天到葡萄园里去做工。』

29他回答说：『我不去』，以后自己懊悔，就去了。

30又来对小儿子也是这样说。他回答说：『父啊，我去』，他却不去。

31你们想，这两个儿子是哪一个遵行父命呢？」他们说：「大儿子。」耶稣说：「我实在告诉你们，税吏和娼妓倒比你们先进 神的国。

32因为约翰遵着义路到你们这里来，你们却不信他；税吏和娼妓倒信他。你们看见了，后来还是不懊悔去信他。」

凶恶园户的比喻

33「你们再听一个比喻：有个家主栽了一个葡萄园，周围圈上篱笆，里面挖了一个压酒池，盖了一座楼，租给园户，就往外国去了。

34收果子的时候近了，就打发仆人到园户那里去收果子。

35园户拿住仆人，打了一个，杀了一个，用石头打死一个。

36主人又打发别的仆人去，比先前更多；园户还是照样待他们。

37后来打发他的儿子到他们那里去，意思说：『他们必尊敬我的儿子。』

38不料，园户看见他儿子，就彼此说：『这是承受产业的。来吧，我们杀他，占他的产业！』

39他们就拿住他，推出葡萄园外，杀了。

40园主来的时候要怎样处治这些园户呢？」

41他们说：「要下毒手除灭那些恶人，将葡萄园另租给那按着时候交果子的园户。」

42耶稣说：「经上写着：匠人所弃的石头 已作了房角的头块石头。 这是主所做的， 在我们眼中看为希奇。这经你们没有念过吗？

43所以我告诉你们， 神的国必从你们夺去，赐给那能结果子的百姓。

44谁掉在这石头上，必要跌碎；这石头掉在谁的身上，就要把谁砸得稀烂。」

45祭司长和法利赛人听见他的比喻，就看出他是指着他们说的。

46他们想要捉拿他，只是怕众人，因为众人以他为先知。

1And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, unto the mount of the Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

2saying to them, 'Go on to the village over-against you, and immediately ye shall find an ass bound, and a colt with her — having loosed, bring ye to me;

3and if any one may say anything to you, ye shall say, that the lord hath need of them, and immediately he will send them.'

4And all this came to pass, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying,

5'Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Lo, thy king doth come to thee, meek, and mounted on an ass, and a colt, a foal of a beast of burden.'

6And the disciples having gone and having done as Jesus commanded them,

7brought the ass and the colt, and did put on them their garments, and set [him] upon them;

8and the very great multitude spread their own garments in the way, and others were cutting branches from the trees, and were strewing in the way,

9and the multitudes who were going before, and who were following, were crying, saying, 'Hosanna to the Son of David, blessed is he who is coming in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.'

10And he having entered into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, 'Who is this?'

11And the multitudes said, 'This is Jesus the prophet, who [is] from Nazareth of Galilee.'

12And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and did cast forth all those selling and buying in the temple, and the tables of the money-changers he overturned, and the seats of those selling the doves,

13and he saith to them, 'It hath been written, My house a house of prayer shall be called, but ye did make it a den of robbers.'

14And there came to him blind and lame men in the temple, and he healed them,

15and the chief priests and the scribes having seen the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, 'Hosanna to the Son of David,' were much displeased;

16and they said to him, 'Hearest thou what these say?' And Jesus saith to them, 'Yes, did ye never read, that, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou didst prepare praise?'

17And having left them, he went forth out of the city to Bethany, and did lodge there,

18and in the morning turning back to the city, he hungered,

19and having seen a certain fig-tree on the way, he came to it, and found nothing in it except leaves only, and he saith to it, 'No more from thee may fruit be — to the age;' and forthwith the fig-tree withered.

20And the disciples having seen, did wonder, saying, 'How did the fig-tree forthwith wither?'

21And Jesus answering said to them, 'Verily I say to you, If ye may have faith, and may not doubt, not only this of the fig-tree shall ye do, but even if to this mount ye may say, Be lifted up and be cast into the sea, it shall come to pass;

22and all — as much as ye may ask in the prayer, believing, ye shall receive.'

23And he having come to the temple, there came to him when teaching the chief priests and the elders of the people, saying, 'By what authority dost thou do these things? and who gave thee this authority?'

24And Jesus answering said to them, 'I will ask you — I also — one word, which if ye may tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things;

25the baptism of John, whence was it? — from heaven, or from men?' And they were reasoning with themselves, saying, 'If we should say, From heaven; he will say to us, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?

26and if we should say, From men, we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.'

27And answering Jesus they said, 'We have not known.' He said to them — he also — 'Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.

28'And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.'

29And he answering said, 'I will not,' but at last, having repented, he went.

30'And having come to the second, he said in the same manner, and he answering said, I [go], sir, and went not;

31which of the two did the will of the father?' They say to him, 'The first.' Jesus saith to them, 'Verily I say to you, that the tax-gatherers and the harlots do go before you into the reign of God,

32for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last — to believe him.

33'Hear ye another simile: There was a certain man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and did put a hedge round it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.

34'And when the season of the fruits came nigh, he sent his servants unto the husbandmen, to receive the fruits of it,

35and the husbandmen having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned.

36'Again he sent other servants more than the first, and they did to them in the same manner.

37'And at last he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son;

38and the husbandmen having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and may possess his inheritance;

39and having taken him, they cast [him] out of the vineyard, and killed him;

40whenever therefore the lord of the vineyard may come, what will he do to these husbandmen?'

41They say to him, 'Evil men — he will evilly destroy them, and the vineyard will give out to other husbandmen, who will give back to him the fruits in their seasons.'

42Jesus saith to them, 'Did ye never read in the Writings, A stone that the builders disallowed, it became head of a corner; from the Lord hath this come to pass, and it is wonderful in our eyes.

43'Because of this I say to you, that the reign of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth its fruit;

44and he who is falling on this stone shall be broken, and on whomsoever it may fall it will crush him to pieces.'

45And the chief priests and the Pharisees having heard his similes, knew that of them he speaketh,

46and seeking to lay hold on him, they feared the multitudes, seeing they were holding him as a prophet.