Riverside(i)
1 WHEN they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples,
2 telling them, "Go into the village opposite and at once you will find an ass tied and a colt with her. Loose her and lead her to me.
3 If any one says anything to you, you will say, 'The Master has need of them,' and at once he will send them."
4 This happened in order that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled,
5 "Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold thy king comes to thee, gentle and riding on an ass and on a colt, the foal of a beast of draught."
6 The disciples went and did as Jesus had bidden them,
7 and brought the ass and the colt, and spread on them their cloaks and seated him on them.
8 A very large crowd spread their cloaks in the road, and others cut off branches from the trees and spread them in the road.
9 The crowds that walked before and those that followed shouted, "God save the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! God in highest heaven save him!"
10 When he entered Jerusalem all the city was shaken, and people said, "Who is this?"
11 The crowds said, "This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee."
12 Jesus went into the Temple courts and drove out all those who were selling and buying there. He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who were selling doves,
13 and he said, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you are making it a den of robbers."
14 Then blind men and lame men came to him in the Temple courts and he healed them.
15 When the high priests and the scribes saw the wonders that he did and the children shouting, "God save the Son of David!" they were angry
16 and said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" Jesus said, "Yes. Have you never read, 'Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise'?"
17 Then he left them and went out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.