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And many spread their clothes on the road, and others cut down leafy branches from the trees and spread them on the road.
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Then those who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: "Hosanna! 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!'
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Blessed is the kingdom of our father David That comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"
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And Jesus went into Jerusalem and into the temple. So when He had looked around at all things, as the hour was already late, He went out to Bethany with the twelve.
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Now the next day, when they had come out from Bethany, He was hungry.
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And seeing from afar a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if perhaps He would find something on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
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In response Jesus said to it, "Let no one eat fruit from you ever again." And His disciples heard it.
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So they came to Jerusalem. Then Jesus went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.
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And He would not allow anyone to carry wares through the temple.
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Then He taught, saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you have made it a 'den of thieves.' "
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And the scribes and chief priests heard it and sought how they might destroy Him; for they feared Him, because all the people were astonished at His teaching.