Book of Common Prayer
12 Fight the noble fight of the faith, get a firm grasp on the life of the coming age, the life you were called to when you made the noble public profession before many witnesses. 13 I give you this charge before God, who gives life to all things, and Messiah Jesus, who made the noble profession before Pontius Pilate: 14 be undefiled and blameless as you keep the commandment, until the royal appearing of our Lord Messiah Jesus, 15 which the blessed and only Sovereign One, the King of kings and Lord of lords, will reveal at its proper time. 16 He is the only one who possesses immortality; he lives in unapproachable light; no human being has seen him, or can see him. To him be eternal honor and power, Amen!
The Temple and the fig tree
12 Jesus went into the Temple and threw out all the people who were buying and selling in the Temple. He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of the dove-sellers.
13 “This is what the Bible says,” he said to them,
My house will be called a house of prayer—
but you have made it a brigands’ lair!”
14 The blind and the lame came to him in the Temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the remarkable things he was doing, and the children shouting out “Hosanna to David’s son!” in the Temple, they were very cross.
16 “Do you hear what they’re saying?” they asked Jesus.
“Yes,” said Jesus. “Did you never read what it says,
You called forth praise to rise to you
from newborn babes and infants too!”
17 Then he left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, where he stayed the night.
Scripture quotations from The New Testament for Everyone are copyright © Nicholas Thomas Wright 2011, 2018, 2019.