and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him. 021:001 When they drew near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage,{TR & NU read "Bethphage" instead of "Bethsphage"} to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 021:002 saying to them, "Go into the village that is opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them, and bring them to me. 021:003 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, 'The Lord needs them,' and immediately he will send them." 021:004 All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, 021:005 "Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey."{Zechariah 9:9} 021:006 The disciples went, and did just as Jesus commanded them, 021:007 and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their clothes on them; and he sat on them. 021:008 A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees, and spread them on the road. 021:009 The multitudes who went before him, and who followed kept shouting, "Hosanna{"Hosanna" means "save us" or "help us, we pray."} to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"{Psalm 118:26} 021:010 When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, "Who is this?" 021:011 The multitudes said, "This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee." 021:012 Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers' tables and the seats of those who sold the doves. 021:013 He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,'{Isaiah 56:7} but you have made it a den of robbers!"{Jeremiah 7:11} 021:014 The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 021:015 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the son of David!" they were indignant, 021:016 and said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?'"{Psalm 8:2} 021:017 He left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there. 021:018 Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry. 021:019 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away. 021:020 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree immediately wither away?"