14 (A)And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15 (B)But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, (C)“Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, 16 and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; (D)have you never read,

(E)“‘Out of the mouth of (F)infants and nursing babies
    you have prepared praise’?”

17 And (G)leaving them, he (H)went out of the city to (I)Bethany and lodged there.

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14 The blind and the lame came to him in the Temple, and he healed them. 15 The leading priests and the teachers of religious law saw these wonderful miracles and heard even the children in the Temple shouting, “Praise God for the Son of David.”

But the leaders were indignant. 16 They asked Jesus, “Do you hear what these children are saying?”

“Yes,” Jesus replied. “Haven’t you ever read the Scriptures? For they say, ‘You have taught children and infants to give you praise.’[a] 17 Then he returned to Bethany, where he stayed overnight.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:16 Ps 8:2 (Greek version).