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and ran into the midst of the assembly; and said to them, “What are you doing, loosing the
already the plague had begun among the peo- colt?”
ple. So he put in the incense and made atone- 6 And they spoke to them just as Jesus had
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ment for the people. And he stood between commanded. So they let them go. Then they
the dead and the living; so the plague was brought the colt to Jesus and threw their
stopped. Now those who died in the plague clothes on it, and He sat on it. And many
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were fourteen thousand seven hundred, spread their clothes on the road, and others cut
besides those who died in the Korah incident. down leafy branches from the trees and spread
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50 So Aaron returned to Moses at the door of them on the road. Then those who went before
the tabernacle of meeting, for the plague had and those who followed cried out, saying:
stopped.
“Hosanna!
Psalm 32:1–5 ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name
of the LORD!’
A Psalm of David. A Contemplation.
10 Blessed is the kingdom of our father
B lessed is he whose transgression That comes in the name of the Lord!
David
is forgiven,
Whose sin is covered. Hosanna in the highest!”
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Blessed is the man to whom the LORD
does not impute iniquity,
And in whose spirit there is no deceit.
3 When I kept silent, my bones grew old
Through my groaning all the day long. 11:10 the kingdom of our father David. This
4 For day and night Your hand was tribute, recorded only by Mark, acknowledges
heavy upon me; Jesus as bringing in the messianic kingdom
promised to David’s Son. The crowd para-
My vitality was turned into the drought phrased the quote from Psalm 118:26 (v. 9) in
of summer. Selah anticipation that Jesus was fulfilling prophecy
5 I acknowledged my sin to You, by bringing in the kingdom.
And my iniquity I have not hidden.
I said, “I will confess my transgressions
to the LORD,” 11 And Jesus went into Jerusalem and into the
And You forgave the iniquity of my sin. temple. So when He had looked around at all
Selah things, as the hour was already late, He went
out to Bethany with the twelve.
Proverbs 11:16–18
12 Now the next day, when they had come out
16 A gracious woman retains honor, from Bethany, He was hungry. And seeing
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But ruthless men retain riches. from afar a fig tree having leaves, He went to
The merciful man does good for his see if perhaps He would find something on it.
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own soul, When He came to it, He found nothing but
But he who is cruel troubles his own leaves, for it was not the season for figs. In
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flesh. response Jesus said to it, “Let no one eat fruit
The wicked man does deceptive work, from you ever again.”
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But he who sows righteousness will And His disciples heard it.
have a sure reward. 15 So they came to Jerusalem. Then Jesus
went into the temple and began to drive out
Mark 11:1–19
those who bought and sold in the temple, and
Now when they drew near Jerusalem, to overturned the tables of the money changers
11 Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of and the seats of those who sold doves. And
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Olives, He sent two of His disciples; and He He would not allow anyone to carry wares
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said to them, “Go into the village opposite you; through the temple. Then He taught, saying
and as soon as you have entered it you will find to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be
a colt tied, on which no one has sat. Loose it called a house of prayer for all nations’ ? But
and bring it. And if anyone says to you, ‘Why you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”
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are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of 18 And the scribes and chief priests heard it
it,’ and immediately he will send it here.” and sought how they might destroy Him; for
So they went their way, and found the colt they feared Him, because all the people were
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tied by the door outside on the street, and they astonished at His teaching. When evening
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loosed it. But some of those who stood there had come, He went out of the city.
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