²⁵ “Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild^(A) Jerusalem until the Anointed One,^[a](B) the ruler,^(C) comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble.^{(D) 26} After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death^(E) and will have nothing.^[b] The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood:^(F) War will continue until the end, and desolations^(G) have been decreed.^(H)

The Coming of Zion’s King

⁶ The disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them. ⁷ They brought the donkey and the colt and placed their cloaks on them for Jesus to sit on. ⁸ A very large crowd spread their cloaks^(B) on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. ⁹ The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted,

¹⁰ When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, “Who is this?”

¹¹ The crowds answered, “This is Jesus, the prophet^(F) from Nazareth in Galilee.”

Jesus at the Temple^(G)

¹² Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying^(H) and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers^(I) and the benches of those selling doves.^{(J) 13} “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’^[e](K) but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’^[f]”^(L)

¹⁴ The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them.^{(M) 15} But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,”^(N) they were indignant.^(O)

¹⁶ “Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him.

“Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read,

¹⁷ And he left them and went out of the city to Bethany,^(Q) where he spent the night.