光荣进圣城

11 当耶稣和门徒们临近耶路撒冷,到橄榄山附近的伯法其伯大尼的时候,耶稣派了他的两个门徒, 对他们说:“你们到对面的村子里去。你们一进村,就会发现一头驴驹拴在那里,是从来没有人骑过的。你们把它解开牵过来。 如果有人问你们为什么这么做,你们就说‘主需要它[a],会很快把它送回这里来的。’”

两个门徒去了,果然发现一头驴驹拴在岔路口一个门外,他们就解开驴驹。 站在那里的一些人问:“你们解开驴驹做什么呢?” 他们就照着耶稣所吩咐的回答,那些人就让他们牵走[b]了。 他们牵着驴驹到耶稣那里,把自己的外衣垫在驴驹上,耶稣就骑了上去。

许多人把自己的外衣铺在路上,也有人从田野里[c]砍来树枝铺在路上[d] 前行后随的人都呼喊:

“和散那!
奉主名而来的那一位——是蒙祝福的![e]
10 [f]将要来的,我们先祖大卫的国度——是蒙祝福的!
在至高之处——和散那!”

11 耶稣进了耶路撒冷,来到圣殿,环视周围的一切。天已经晚了,他就与十二使徒[g]一同离开,往伯大尼去了。

不结果子的无花果树

12 第二天,当他们离开伯大尼的时候,耶稣饿了。 13 他远远地看见一棵长满叶子的无花果树,就上前去,要看看树上是否有什么。他来到树下,除了叶子什么也找不到,因为不是结无花果的季节。 14 于是他对那棵树说:“永远不再有任何人吃到你的果子了!”他的门徒都听见了。

洁净圣殿

15 他们来到耶路撒冷。耶稣进了圣殿,开始把那些在圣殿里做买卖的人赶出去。他推翻了兑换银币之人的桌子和卖鸽子之人的凳子, 16 也不准任何人搬运东西穿过圣殿。

17 耶稣教导他们说:“经上不是记着‘我的殿将被称为万国祷告的殿’[h]吗?而你们却使它成为贼窝了![i] 18 祭司长们和经文士们听了,就图谋怎样来除灭耶稣。原来他们怕耶稣,因为众人都对他的教导惊叹不已。

19 到了傍晚的时候,耶稣和门徒们就到城外去。

无花果树枯萎

20 清晨,他们路过那棵无花果树的时候,看见它连根都枯萎了。 21 彼得想起来就对耶稣说:“拉比,你看!你所诅咒的无花果树枯萎了!”

22 耶稣对他们说:“你们当对神有信心。 23 我确实地告诉你们:无论谁对这座山说‘愿你被挪开,被丢进海里去!’只要他心里不疑惑,相信自己所说的会成就,事情[j]就将为他成就。 24 所以,我告诉你们:凡是你们所祷告和祈求的,当相信已经得着了[k]。这样,事情就将为你们成就。 25 当你们站着祷告的时候,如果向什么人怀怨,就要饶恕他。这样,你们在天上的父也会饶恕你们的过犯。 26 你们如果不饶恕别人,你们在天上的父也不会饶恕你们的过犯。[l]

质疑耶稣的权柄

27 他们又来到耶路撒冷。当耶稣在圣殿里行走的时候,祭司长们、经文士们和长老们来到他那里。 28 他们问:“你凭什么权柄做这些事?谁给你这权柄,让你做这些事?”

29 耶稣对他们说:“我要问你们一个问题,你们回答我,我就告诉你们我凭什么权柄做这些事。 30 约翰的洗礼是来自天上,还是来自人间呢?你们回答我!”

31 他们就彼此讨论,说:“如果我们说‘是来自天上’,他就会问‘那么你们为什么不相信他呢?’ 32 可是我们能说‘是来自人间’吗?”原来他们怕民众,因为大家都认为约翰的确是先知。 33 于是他们回答耶稣,说:“我们不知道。”

耶稣就对他们说:“我也不告诉你们我凭什么权柄做这些事。”

Footnotes

  1. 马可福音 11:3 主需要它——或译作“它的主人有需要”。
  2. 马可福音 11:6 牵走——辅助词语。
  3. 马可福音 11:8 从田野里——有古抄本作“从树上”。
  4. 马可福音 11:8 有古抄本没有“铺在路上”。
  5. 马可福音 11:9 《诗篇》118:26。
  6. 马可福音 11:10 有古抄本附“奉主名”。
  7. 马可福音 11:11 使徒——辅助词语。
  8. 马可福音 11:17 《以赛亚书》56:7。
  9. 马可福音 11:17 《耶利米书》7:11。
  10. 马可福音 11:23 事情——有古抄本作“凡是他所说的事情”。
  11. 马可福音 11:24 已经得着了——有古抄本作“将得到”。
  12. 马可福音 11:26 有古抄本没有此节。

Jesus’ Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalem

11 As they approached Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, on the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples and told them, “Go into the village ahead of you. As soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it, and he will send it back here without delay.’”

They left and found a colt on the street, tied at a door; and they untied it. Some who were standing there asked them, “What are you doing, untying that colt?” The disciples answered them just as Jesus had instructed them, and the men let them go.

They brought the colt to Jesus, threw their garments on it, and Jesus sat on it. Many people spread their garments on the road. Others spread branches that they had cut from the fields. Those who went in front and those who followed were crying out,

Hosanna![a]
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord![b]
10 Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!
Hosanna in the highest!

11 Jesus went into the temple courts in Jerusalem and looked around at everything. Since it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the Twelve.

Jesus Curses a Fig Tree

12 The next day, after they had set out from Bethany, Jesus was hungry. 13 When he saw a fig tree in leaf in the distance, he went to see if he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, since it was not the season for figs. 14 Jesus said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” And his disciples were listening.

Jesus Cleanses His Father’s House

15 They came to Jerusalem. Jesus went into the temple area and began to drive out those who were selling and buying in the temple courts. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who were selling doves. 16 He would not allow anyone to carry any merchandise through the temple courts. 17 He began to teach them: “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’?[c] But you have made it ‘a den of robbers’!”[d]

18 The chief priests and the experts in the law heard this and were looking for a way to kill him. Indeed they were afraid of him, because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.

19 When evening came, Jesus and his disciples would leave the city.

The Withered Fig Tree

20 As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered down to the roots. 21 Peter remembered and said, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.”

22 Jesus replied, “Have faith in God. 23 Amen I tell you: Whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. 24 Therefore I tell you, everything that you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. 25 Whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins. 26 But if you do not forgive, your Father in heaven will not forgive your sins.”[e]

Jesus’ Authority Is Questioned

27 They went into Jerusalem again. As he was walking in the temple courts, the chief priests, the experts in the law, and the elders came to him. 28 They asked him, “By what authority are you doing these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?”

29 Jesus replied, “I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. 30 The baptism of John—was it from heaven or from men? Answer me.”

31 They discussed this with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’ 32 But if we say, ‘From men’. . . .” (They feared the crowd, because everybody held that John really was a prophet.) 33 So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.”

Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”

Footnotes

  1. Mark 11:9 Hosanna means save us or help us, we pray.
  2. Mark 11:9 Psalm 118:25-26
  3. Mark 11:17 Isaiah 56:7
  4. Mark 11:17 Jeremiah 7:11
  5. Mark 11:26 A few witnesses to the text do not include verse 26.

Đức Giê-su Vào Thành Giê-ru-sa-lem(A)

11 Khi họ gần đến Bết-pha-giê và Bê-tha-ni tại núi Ô-liu gần thành Giê-ru-sa-lem, Đức Giê-su sai hai môn đệ đi trước, và dặn rằng: “Hãy vào làng đối diện các con, vừa đến nơi các con sẽ thấy một con lừa con chưa ai cưỡi đang cột tại đó. Hãy mở ra và dắt về đây. Nếu có ai hỏi: ‘Tại sao các anh làm vậy?’ Hãy bảo họ: ‘Chúa cần dùng nó, rồi sẽ trả lại đây ngay.’ ”

Họ đi và thấy một con lừa con đang cột trước cửa một căn nhà bên đường. Họ mở lừa ra. Vài người trong số người đứng đó hỏi: “Các anh mở lừa con này làm gì?” Hai môn đệ trả lời như Đức Giê-su đã dặn, thì người ta để cho họ đi. Họ đem lừa về cho Đức Giê-su, trải áo mình trên nó, rồi Ngài ngồi lên. Nhiều người trải áo mình trên đường, người khác trải lá cây vừa chặt ngoài đồng. Người đi trước, kẻ theo sau đều tung hô:

“Hô-sa-na![a]
Phước cho Đấng nhân danh Chúa mà đến!
10 Phước cho vương quốc sắp đến của vua Đa-vít, tổ phụ chúng ta!
Hô-sa-na trên nơi chí cao!”

11 Đức Giê-su đến Giê-ru-sa-lem, đi vào đền thờ và quan sát mọi vật chung quanh. Lúc ấy trời đã tối nên Ngài và mười hai môn đệ đi về Bê-tha-ni.

Cây Vả Chết Khô(B)

12 Ngày hôm sau, khi họ rời làng Bê-tha-ni, Đức Giê-su cảm thấy đói. 13 Từ xa Ngài thấy một cây vả đầy lá nên đến tìm xem thử có trái nào không, nhưng khi đến nơi Ngài chỉ thấy lá vì lúc ấy chưa phải là mùa vả. 14 Đức Giê-su bảo cây vả rằng: “Từ nay về sau sẽ không một ai ăn trái của mày nữa.” Và các môn đệ Ngài đều nghe lời ấy.

Đức Giê-su Vào Đền Thờ(C)

15 Họ đến Giê-ru-sa-lem, khi vào đền thờ Đức Giê-su bắt đầu đuổi những người mua bán trong đền thờ. Ngài lật đổ bàn của bọn đổi tiền và ghế của những kẻ bán bồ câu. 16 Ngài cấm không cho ai đem đồ vật qua lại trong đền thờ. 17 Rồi Ngài truyền dạy họ: “Không phải Kinh Thánh đã chép rằng:

‘Nhà Ta sẽ gọi là
    Nhà cầu nguyện cho mọi dân tộc sao?’

Nhưng các ngươi đã biến thành hang trộm cướp!”

18 Các thượng tế và các giáo sư Kinh Luật nghe được điều này thì tìm cách diệt Ngài vì họ sợ Ngài, bởi cả đoàn dân ngưỡng mộ sự giáo huấn của Ngài.

19 Tối đến, Đức Giê-su và các môn đệ rời khỏi thành phố.

Bài Học Cây Vả(D)

20 Sáng hôm sau, khi đi ngang qua đó, họ thấy cây vả đã chết khô đến tận rễ. 21 Phê-rơ nhớ lại nên thưa cùng Đức Giê-su: “Thưa Thầy xem kìa, cây vả mà Thầy quở đã chết khô rồi.”

22 Đức Giê-su trả lời: “Hãy có đức tin nơi Đức Chúa Trời. 23 Thật, Ta nói cùng các con, ai bảo ngọn núi này: Hãy cất lên và ném xuống biển mà lòng không chút nghi ngờ, nhưng tin những gì mình nói sẽ xảy ra thì sẽ đạt được. 24 Vì thế, Ta bảo các con, bất cứ điều gì các con cầu nguyện và nài xin, hãy tin mình đã được thì các con sẽ được như vậy. 25 Khi đang đứng cầu nguyện, nếu có điều gì bất bình với ai, các con hãy tha thứ, để Cha các con trên trời cũng tha thứ lỗi lầm cho các con. 26 Nếu các con không tha lỗi cho người khác, thì Cha các con ở trên trời cũng không tha thứ những lỗi lầm cho các con.”[b]

Thẩm Quyền Của Đức Giê-su(E)

27 Họ lại lên Giê-ru-sa-lem. Khi Đức Giê-su đang đi trong đền thờ, các thượng tế, các giáo sư Kinh Luật, và các trưởng lão đến hỏi Ngài: 28 “Bởi thẩm quyền nào Thầy làm những việc này? Ai cho Thầy thẩm quyền để có thể làm những việc đó?”

29 Đức Giê-su trả lời: “Ta hỏi các ông một câu, các ông hãy trả lời cho Ta, rồi Ta sẽ tỏ cho các ông rõ bởi thẩm quyền nào Ta làm những việc này: 30 ‘Giăng nhận thẩm quyền làm phép báp-tem từ Trời, hay từ người? Hãy trả lời cho Ta.’ ”

31 Họ bàn luận với nhau: “Nếu chúng ta trả lời ‘từ Đức Chúa Trời’ thì người sẽ nói: ‘Vậy tại sao các người không tin lời Giăng?’ 32 Nhưng chúng ta không thể nói: ‘Từ người?’ (Họ sợ dân chúng, vì mọi người đều tin rằng Giăng chính là vị tiên tri.)

33 Nên họ trả lời Ngài: ‘Chúng tôi không biết.’ ” Đức Giê-su bảo: “Ta cũng sẽ không nói cho các người bởi thẩm quyền nào Ta làm những việc này.”

Footnotes

  1. 11:9 Xin Chúa cứu
  2. 11:26 Một số bản cổ không có câu này

Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King(A)(B)

11 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany(C) at the Mount of Olives,(D) Jesus sent two of his disciples, saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden.(E) Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here shortly.’”

They went and found a colt outside in the street, tied at a doorway.(F) As they untied it, some people standing there asked, “What are you doing, untying that colt?” They answered as Jesus had told them to, and the people let them go. When they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, he sat on it. Many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had cut in the fields. Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted,

“Hosanna![a]

“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”[b](G)

10 “Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!”

“Hosanna in the highest heaven!”(H)

11 Jesus entered Jerusalem and went into the temple courts. He looked around at everything, but since it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the Twelve.(I)

Jesus Curses a Fig Tree and Clears the Temple Courts(J)(K)(L)

12 The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. 13 Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs.(M) 14 Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard him say it.

15 On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, 16 and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. 17 And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’[c]?(N) But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’[d](O)

18 The chief priests and the teachers of the law heard this and began looking for a way to kill him, for they feared him,(P) because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.(Q)

19 When evening came, Jesus and his disciples[e] went out of the city.(R)

20 In the morning, as they went along, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots. 21 Peter remembered and said to Jesus, “Rabbi,(S) look! The fig tree you cursed has withered!”

22 “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. 23 “Truly[f] I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.(T) 24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.(U) 25 And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.”(V) [26] [g]

The Authority of Jesus Questioned(W)

27 They arrived again in Jerusalem, and while Jesus was walking in the temple courts, the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders came to him. 28 “By what authority are you doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave you authority to do this?”

29 Jesus replied, “I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. 30 John’s baptism—was it from heaven, or of human origin? Tell me!”

31 They discussed it among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’ 32 But if we say, ‘Of human origin’ …” (They feared the people, for everyone held that John really was a prophet.)(X)

33 So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.”

Jesus said, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”

Footnotes

  1. Mark 11:9 A Hebrew expression meaning “Save!” which became an exclamation of praise; also in verse 10
  2. Mark 11:9 Psalm 118:25,26
  3. Mark 11:17 Isaiah 56:7
  4. Mark 11:17 Jer. 7:11
  5. Mark 11:19 Some early manuscripts came, Jesus
  6. Mark 11:23 Some early manuscripts “If you have faith in God,” Jesus answered, 23 “truly
  7. Mark 11:26 Some manuscripts include here words similar to Matt. 6:15.

11 And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples,

And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring him.

And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither.

And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him.

And certain of them that stood there said unto them, What do ye, loosing the colt?

And they said unto them even as Jesus had commanded: and they let them go.

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

And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way.

And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:

10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.

11 And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.

12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:

13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.

14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.

15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;

16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.

17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.

18 And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.

19 And when even was come, he went out of the city.

20 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.

21 And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.

22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.

23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

27 And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders,

28 And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority to do these things?

29 And Jesus answered and said unto them, I will also ask of you one question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.

30 The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? answer me.

31 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?

32 But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.

33 And they answered and said unto Jesus, We cannot tell. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.