Book of Common Prayer

I Will Always Be Reminding You of These Things As Long As I Live

¹² Therefore, I will-certainly^[a] always be reminding you about these things, even though you are ones knowing and having been established in the truth being present with you. ¹³ And I regard it right for as long as I am in this [bodily] tent to be arousing you with a reminder, ¹⁴ knowing that the putting-off of my [bodily] tent is imminent, just as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ made-clear to me. ¹⁵ And I will also be diligent that at-any-time after my departure^[b], you may have the ability to produce the memory of these things.

For We Were Eyewitnesses of Christ’s Majesty And Glory

¹⁶ For we made-known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ— not having followed-after cleverly-devised myths, but having been made^[c] eyewitnesses of the majesty of that One. ¹⁷ For He having received from God the Father the honor and glory of such a voice^[d] having been carried^[e] to Him by the Majestic Glory— “This is My Son, My Beloved, in Whom I was^[f] well-pleased”— ¹⁸ we ourselves also heard this voice having been carried out of heaven, being with Him on the holy mountain.

And We Have God’s Prophetic Word More Firm

¹⁹ And we have the prophetic^[g] word as more-firm^[h], to which you are doing well to be paying-attention as to a lamp shining in a dismal^[i] place, until which time the day dawns and the morning-star rises in your hearts, ²⁰ knowing this first— that no prophecy of Scripture comes^[j] from one’s own^[k] interpretation^[l]. ²¹ For no prophecy was ever carried^[m] by the will of a human, but people being carried by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

Jesus Cleanses The Temple And Accepts Praises From Boys. The Chief Priests Object

¹² And Jesus entered into the temple. And He threw-out all the ones selling and buying in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money-changers^[a] and the seats of the ones selling the doves^[b]. ¹³ And He says to them, “It has been written [in Isa 56:7]: ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’. But you are making it a den of robbers^[c]”. ¹⁴ And blind ones and lame ones came to Him in the temple, and He cured them. ¹⁵ But the chief priests and the scribes— having seen the marvelous things which He did, and the boys^[d] crying-out in the temple and saying “Hosanna to the Son of David”— were indignant ¹⁶ and said to Him, “Do You hear what these boys are saying?” And Jesus says to them, “Yes— did you never read [in Ps 8:2] that ‘You prepared-Yourself praise out of the mouth^[e] of children and nursing ones’?” ¹⁷ And having left them behind, He went outside of the city to Bethany and spent-the-night there.

Jesus Curses a Fruitless Fig Tree

¹⁸ Now early-in-the-morning while returning to the city, He was hungry. ¹⁹ And having seen one fig tree near the road, He went to it and found nothing on it except leaves only^[f]. And He says to it, “May fruit no longer come from you— forever”. And the fig tree was dried-up at-once. ²⁰ And having seen it, the disciples marveled, saying, “How was the fig tree dried up at once?” ²¹ And having responded, Jesus said to them, “Truly I say to you— if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do the thing of the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and be thrown into the sea’, it will be done. ²² And you will receive all that you ask in prayer, believing”.