Gift of I AM (Matthew) 21

1 When they drew near Rain of Peace (Jerusalem), and came to House of Unripe Figs (Bethphage), to the Mount of Olives, I AM is Our Salvation (Yeshua) sent two of His disciples,

2 Saying to them: Go into the next village, and straightway you will find an ass tied, and a colt with her: untie them, and bring them to Me.

3 If any man stops to you, tell him: The Lord needs them; and he will send them right away.

4 All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:

5 Tell the daughter of Lofty (Sion): Behold, your King comes to you, meek, and sitting on an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

6 So the disciples went, and did as I AM is Our Salvation (Yeshua) commanded them,

7 They brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set Him thereon.

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

9 A great multitude went before Him and also followed after Him. They cried, saying: O Save! (Hosanna) to the son of Beloved (David): Blessed is He that comes in the name of the Lord; O Save! (Hosanna) in the highest.

10 When He came into Rain of Peace (Jerusalem), all the city was moved, saying: Who is this?

11 And the multitude proclaimed: This is I AM is Our Salvation (Yeshua) the prophet of The Guarded One (Nazareth) of Circuit-District (Galilee).

12 Then I AM is Our Salvation (Yeshua) went into the temple of God, and cast out all those that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,

13 He 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 When the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying in the temple and saying: O Save! (Hosanna) to the Son of Beloved (David); they were very displeased,

16 And said to Him: Do You hear what they are saying? I AM is Our Salvation (Yeshua) answered them: Yes; have you never read: Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings: You have perfected praise?

17 He left them and went out of the city to House of Depression or Misery (Bethany), and lodged there.

18 Now in the morning as He returned to the city, He was hungry.

19 And when He saw a fig tree in the way, He came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said to it: Let no fruit grow on you henceforward forever. And presently the fig tree withered away.

20 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying: How quickly the fig tree has withered away!

21 I AM is Our Salvation (Yeshua) answered them: Truly I say to you, If you have faith, and doubt not, you shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if you shall say to this mountain, Be removed, and be cast into the sea; it shall be done.

22 And all things, whatever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.

23 When He came into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to Him as He was teaching, and said: By what authority do You these things? who gave You this authority?

24 I AM is Our Salvation (Yeshua) answered them: I also will ask you one thing, which if you tell Me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things.

25 The baptism of I AM is a Gracious Giver (John), where did it come from? Heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying: If we say, from Heaven; He will say to us: Why didn’t you believe him?

26 But if we say: Of men; we fear the people; for all hold I AM is a Gracious Giver (John) as a prophet.

27 So they answered I AM is Our Salvation (Yeshua): We cannot tell. And He said to them: Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

28 But what do you think? A certain man had two sons. He said to the first: Son, go work today in my vineyard.

29 His son answered: I will not: but afterward, he repented and went.

30 And he came to the second and said likewise. This son answered and said: I go, sir: but didn’t go.

31 Which of the two did the will of his father? They said to Him: The first. I AM is Our Salvation (Yeshua) replied: Truly I say to you; the publicans and the harlots go into the Kingdom of God before you.

32 For I AM is a Gracious Giver (John) came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and you, when you had seen it, did not repent afterward, that you might believe him.

33 Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner, who planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and rented it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:

34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.

35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did to them likewise.

37 But last of all he sent to them his son, saying: They will respect my son.

38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves: This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize his inheritance.

39 They attacked him, cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.

40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those husbandmen?

41 They said to him: He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard to other husbandmen, who will pay him the fruits in their seasons.

42 I AM is Our Salvation (Yeshua) said to them: Did you never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes?

43 Therefore say I to you: The kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

44 And whoever falls on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it falls on, it will grind him to powder.

45 And when the chief priests and The Separate (Pharisees) had heard His parables, they perceived that He spoke of them.

46 But when they sought to lay hands on Him, they feared the multitude, because they took Him for a prophet.