The Life of Jesus

even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

And they going forth from Jericho, there followed him a great multitude,

and lo, two blind men sitting by the way, having heard that Jesus doth pass by, cried, saying, `Deal kindly with us, sir--Son of David.'

And the multitude charged them that they might be silent, and they cried out the more, saying, `Deal kindly with us sir--Son of David.'

And having stood, Jesus called them, and said, `What will ye that I may do to you?'

they say to him, `Sir, that our eyes may be opened;'

and having been moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes, and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.

And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, unto the mount of the Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

saying to them, `Go on to the village over-against you, and immediately ye shall find an ass bound, and a colt with her--having loosed, bring ye to me;

and if any one may say anything to you, ye shall say, that the lord hath need of them, and immediately he will send them.'

And all this came to pass, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying,

`Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Lo, thy king doth come to thee, meek, and mounted on an ass, and a colt, a foal of a beast of burden.'

And the disciples having gone and having done as Jesus commanded them,

brought the ass and the colt, and did put on them their garments, and set him upon them;

and the very great multitude spread their own garments in the way, and others were cutting branches from the trees, and were strewing in the way,

and the multitudes who were going before, and who were following, were crying, saying, `Hosanna to the Son of David, blessed is he who is coming in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.'

And he having entered into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, `Who is this?'

And the multitudes said, `This is Jesus the prophet, who is from Nazareth of Galilee.'

And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and did cast forth all those selling and buying in the temple, and the tables of the money-changers he overturned, and the seats of those selling the doves,

and he saith to them, `It hath been written, My house a house of prayer shall be called, but ye did make it a den of robbers.'

And there came to him blind and lame men in the temple, and he healed them,

and the chief priests and the scribes having seen the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, `Hosanna to the Son of David,' were much displeased;

and they said to him, `Hearest thou what these say?' And Jesus saith to them, `Yes, did ye never read, that, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou didst prepare praise?'

And having left them, he went forth out of the city to Bethany, and did lodge there,

and in the morning turning back to the city, he hungered,