NIV Butterfly Garden Holy Bible Book of Mark, "Prayer Is..., Getting to Know Jesus | Page 15

Mark 11:8  l  870
­ rought the colt to ­Jesus and ­threw t ­ heir
b
cloaks over it, he sat on it. 8   Many peo­ple
spread t ­ heir c ­ loaks on the road, ­while oth­
ers s ­ pread branch­es they had cut in the
­ head and t ­ hose
­fields. 9 Those who went a
who fol­lowed shout­ed,
“Hosanna!  a  ”
“Blessed is he who comes in the name
of the Lord!”  b
10 “Blessed is the coming kingdom of our
father David!”
“Hosanna in the highest heaven!”
11 ­Jesus en­tered Je­ru­sa­lem and went into
the tem­ple ­courts. He l ­ ooked ­around at ev­
ery­thing, but ­since it was al­ready late, he
went out to Beth­a­ny with the Twelve.
J ­ esus Curses a Fig Tree and Clears
the Temple Courts
12 The next day as they were leav­ing
Beth­a­ny, ­Jesus was hun­gry. 13 See­ing in the
dis­tance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find
out if it had any f ­ ruit. When he r ­ eached it,
he ­found noth­ing but l ­ eaves, be­cause it
was not the sea­son for figs. 14 Then he said
to the tree, “May no one ever eat f ­ ruit from
you ­again.” And his dis­ci­ples h
­ eard him
say it.
15   On reach­ing Je­ru­sa­lem, ­Jesus en­tered
the tem­ple c ­ ourts and be­gan driv­ing out
­those who were buy­ing and sell­ing ­there.
He over­turned the ta­bles of the mon­ey
chang­ers and the bench­es of ­those sell­
ing ­doves, 16   and ­would not al­low any­one
to car­ry mer­chan­dise ­through the tem­ple
­courts. 17 And as he t ­ aught them, he said,
“Is it not writ­ten: ‘My h
­ ouse will be c ­ alled
a ­house of ­prayer for all na­tions’  c  ? But you
have made it ‘a den of rob­bers.’  d  ”
18 The ­chief ­priests and the teach­ers of
the law h
­ eard this and be­gan look­ing for
a way to kill him, for they f ­ eared him, be­
cause the ­whole ­crowd was ­amazed at his
teach­ing.
19 When eve­ning came, ­Jesus and his dis­
ci­ples  e went out of the city.
20 In the morn­ing, as they went a
­ long,
they saw the fig tree with­ered from the
­roots. 21 Pe­ter re­mem­bered and said to
Jesus, “Rab­bi, look! The fig tree you ­cursed
has with­ered!”
22 “Have ­faith in God,” ­Jesus an­swered.
23 “Tru­ly  f I tell you, if any­one says to this
moun­tain, ‘Go, ­throw your­self into the sea,’
and does not ­doubt in their ­heart but be­
lieves that what they say will hap­pen, it
will be done for them. 24 There­fore I tell
you, what­ev­er you ask for in p
­ rayer, be­
lieve that you have re­ceived it, and it will
be ­yours. 25 And when you ­stand pray­ing, if
you hold any­thing ­against any­one, for­give
them, so that your Fa­ther in heav­en may
for­give you your sins.” [26] g
The Authority of ­Jesus Questioned
27   They ar­rived ­again in Je­ru­sa­lem, and
­while ­Jesus was walk­ing in the tem­ple
courts, the c ­ hief ­priests, the teach­ers of the
law and the el­ders came to him. 28 “By what
au­thor­i­ty are you do­ing ­these ­things?”
they ­asked. “And who gave you au­thor­i­ty
to do this?”
29 ­Jesus re­plied, “I will ask you one ques­
tion. An­swer me, and I will tell you by what
au­thor­i­ty I am do­ing ­these ­things. 30 John’s
bap­tism — ​was it from heav­en, or of hu­
man or­i­gin? Tell  me!”
31 They dis­cussed it a
­ mong them­selves
and said, “If we say, ‘From heav­en,’ he will
ask, ‘Then why ­didn’t you be­lieve him?’
32 But if we say, ‘Of hu­man or­i­gin’ . . .” (They
feared the peo­ple, for ev­ery­one held that
John real­ly was a proph­et.)
33 So they an­swered ­Jesus, “We ­don’t
know.”
­Jesus said, “Nei­ther will I tell you by
what au­thor­i­ty I am do­ing ­these things.”
The Parable of the Tenants
12
Jesus then be­gan to ­speak to them in
par­a­bles: “A man plant­ed a vine­yard.
He put a wall ­around it, dug a pit for the
wine­press and ­built a watch­tow­er. Then he
rent­ed the vine­yard to some farm­ers and
­moved to an­oth­er ­place. 2 At har­vest time
he sent a ser­vant to the ten­ants to col­lect
from them some of the ­fruit of the vine­
yard. 3 But they s ­ eized him, beat him and
sent him away emp­ty-hand­ed. 4 Then he
sent an­oth­er ser­vant to them; they s ­ truck
this man on the head and treat­ed him
shame­ful­ly. 5 He sent ­still an­oth­er, and that
one they k
­ illed. He sent many oth­ers; some
of them they beat, oth­ers they killed.
6 “He had one left to send, a son, whom
he l ­ oved. He sent him last of all, say­ing,
‘They will re­spect my son.’
a  9  A Hebrew expression meaning “Save!”
which became an exclamation of praise; also in
verse 10    b  9 Psalm 118:25,26    c  17  Isaiah 56:7   
d  17 Jer. 7:11    e  19  Some early manuscripts came,
Jesus    f  22,23  Some early manuscripts “If you
have faith in God,” ­Jesus answered, 23 “truly   
g  26  Some manuscripts include here words
similar to Matt. 6:15.