English Bible Presentation Sharing - Mark Book, chapter 11, verse 57 in Hcsb Version

Mark 11 : 1 (HCSB)

When they approached Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany near the Mount of Olives, He sent two of His disciples

Mark 11 : 2 (HCSB)

and told them, "Go into the village ahead of you. As soon as you enter it, you will find a young donkey tied there, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here.

Mark 11 : 3 (HCSB)

If anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord needs it and will send it back here right away.'"

Mark 11 : 4 (HCSB)

So they went and found a young donkey outside in the street, tied by a door. They untied it,

Mark 11 : 5 (HCSB)

and some of those standing there said to them, "What are you doing, untying the donkey?"

Mark 11 : 6 (HCSB)

They answered them just as Jesus had said, so they let them go.

Mark 11 : 7 (HCSB)

Then they brought the donkey to Jesus and threw their robes on it, and He sat on it.

Mark 11 : 8 (HCSB)

Many people spread their robes on the road, and others spread leafy branches cut from the fields.

Mark 11 : 9 (HCSB)

Then those who went ahead and those who followed kept shouting: Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!

Mark 11 : 10 (HCSB)

Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest heaven!

Mark 11 : 11 (HCSB)

And He went into Jerusalem and into the temple complex. After looking around at everything, since it was already late, He went out to Bethany with the Twelve.

Mark 11 : 12 (HCSB)

The next day when they came out from Bethany, He was hungry.

Mark 11 : 13 (HCSB)

After seeing in the distance a fig tree with leaves, He went to find out if there was anything on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs.

Mark 11 : 14 (HCSB)

He said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" And His disciples heard it.

Mark 11 : 15 (HCSB)

They came to Jerusalem, and He went into the temple complex and began to throw out those buying and selling in the temple. He overturned the money changers' tables and the chairs of those selling doves,

Mark 11 : 16 (HCSB)

and would not permit anyone to carry goods through the temple complex.

Mark 11 : 17 (HCSB)

Then He began to teach them: "Is it not written, My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of thieves!"

Mark 11 : 18 (HCSB)

Then the chief priests and the scribes heard it and started looking for a way to destroy Him. For they were afraid of Him, because the whole crowd was astonished by His teaching.

Mark 11 : 19 (HCSB)

And whenever evening came, they would go out of the city.

Mark 11 : 20 (HCSB)

Early in the morning, as they were passing by, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots up.

Mark 11 : 21 (HCSB)

Then Peter remembered and said to Him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree that You cursed is withered."

Mark 11 : 22 (HCSB)

Jesus replied to them, "Have faith in God.

Mark 11 : 23 (HCSB)

I assure you: If anyone says to this mountain, 'Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.

Mark 11 : 24 (HCSB)

Therefore, I tell you, all the things you pray and ask for-- believe that you have received them, and you will have them.

Mark 11 : 25 (HCSB)

And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven will also forgive you your wrongdoing.

Mark 11 : 26 (HCSB)

[But if you don't forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your wrongdoing."

Mark 11 : 27 (HCSB)

They came again to Jerusalem. As He was walking in the temple complex, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came and asked Him,

Mark 11 : 28 (HCSB)

"By what authority are You doing these things? Who gave You this authority to do these things?"

Mark 11 : 29 (HCSB)

Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question; then answer Me, and I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

Mark 11 : 30 (HCSB)

Was John's baptism from heaven or from men? Answer Me."

Mark 11 : 31 (HCSB)

They began to argue among themselves: "If we say, 'From heaven,' He will say, 'Then why didn't you believe him?'

Mark 11 : 32 (HCSB)

But if we say, 'From men' "-- they were afraid of the crowd, because everyone thought that John was a genuine prophet.

Mark 11 : 33 (HCSB)

So they answered Jesus, "We don't know." And Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things."