Readings for Lent and Easter

21 And when they drew near to Jerusalem, and had come to Bethphage, to the mount of the Olives. Then Jesus sent two disciples,

² saying to them, “Go into the town in front of you, and soon you shall find a donkey bound, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to Me.

³ “And if anyone says anything to you, say that the Lord has need of them. And immediately he will let them go.”

⁴ All this was done that what was spoken by the Prophet might be fulfilled, which says,

⁵ “Tell the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your King comes to you, meek and sitting upon a donkey; and upon a colt, the foal of a beast of burden’.”

⁶ So the disciples went and did as Jesus had commanded them;

⁷ and brought the donkey and the colt, and put their garments on them, and set Him upon it.

⁸ And a great multitude spread their garments in the way. And others cut down branches from the trees and strew them in the way.

⁹ Moreover, the people who went before, as well as those who followed, cried, saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He Who comes in the Name of the Lord! Hosanna, in the highest!”

¹⁰ And when He had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”

¹¹ And the people said, “This is Jesus, that Prophet of Nazareth in Galilee.”

¹² And Jesus went into the Temple of God, and cast out all those who sold and bought in the Temple; and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of those who sold doves;

¹³ and said to them, “It is written! My house shall be called the House of Prayer! But you have made it a den of thieves!”

¹⁴ Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the Temple. And He healed them.

¹⁵ But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonders that He did, and the children crying in the Temple, and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David”, they were angry,

¹⁶ and said to Him, “Do You hear what they say?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you never read, ‘By the mouth of children and infants You have made perfect the praise’?”