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Mark 11:11Now as they approached Jerusalem, near Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciplesCopy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 12:14-19Luke 19:29-40Matt 21:1-11Acts 1:12John 8:1Mark 14:13Mark 6:7Matt 21:17Matt 24:3Matt 26:30
Mark 11:22and said to them, “Go to the village ahead of you. As soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 21:2-3Luke 19:30-31
Mark 11:33If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here soon.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 8:9Acts 10:36Acts 17:25Heb 2:7-9Mark 14:151 Chr 29:12-18Acts 1:24Ps 110:3Ps 24:1
Mark 11:44So they went and found a colt tied at a door, outside in the street, and untied it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 11:8John 2:5Luke 19:32-34Matt 21:6-7Matt 26:19
Mark 11:55Some people standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying that colt?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Mark 11:66They replied as Jesus had told them, and the bystanders let them go.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Mark 11:77Then they brought the colt to Jesus, threw their cloaks on it, and he sat on it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 19:35-36Zech 9:9Matt 21:4-5Matt 21:7-8John 12:12-162 Kgs 9:13
Mark 11:88Many spread their cloaks on the road and others spread branches they had cut in the fields.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 23:40
Mark 11:99Both those who went ahead and those who followed kept shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 118:25-26Matt 21:9Luke 19:37-38Matt 23:39John 12:13John 19:15
Mark 11:1010Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 37:24-25Luke 19:38-40Luke 2:14Amos 9:11-12Ezek 34:23-24Hos 3:5Isa 9:6-7Jer 33:15-17Jer 33:26Luke 1:31-33
Mark 11:1111Then Jesus entered Jerusalem and went to the temple. And after looking around at everything, he went out to Bethany with the twelve since it was already late.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 8:1-2Zeph 1:12Ezek 8:9Luke 19:41-45Luke 21:37-38Mal 3:1Matt 21:10-17
Mark 11:1212Now the next day, as they went out from Bethany, he was hungry.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 21:18-22Matt 4:2John 19:28Heb 2:17John 4:31-33John 4:6-7Luke 4:2
Mark 11:1313After noticing in the distance a fig tree with leaves, he went to see if he could find any fruit on it. When he came to it he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 13:6-9Matt 21:19Isa 5:7Luke 12:6-7
Mark 11:1414He said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 21:19Matt 3:10Matt 7:19John 15:6Mark 11:20-21Isa 5:5-6Matt 12:33-35Deut 6:4-8Matt 21:44Rev 22:11
Mark 11:1515Then they came to Jerusalem. Jesus entered the temple area and began to drive out those who were selling and buying in the temple courts. He turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 2:13-17Matt 21:12-16Luke 19:45-47
Mark 11:1616and he would not permit anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Mark 11:1717Then he began to teach them and said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations ’? But you have turned it into a den of robbers!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 56:7Jer 7:11Luke 19:46John 2:161 Kgs 8:41-48Isa 60:7Hos 12:7
Mark 11:1818The chief priests and the experts in the law heard it and they considered how they could assassinate him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed by his teaching.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 7:28Mark 12:121 Kgs 18:17-181 Kgs 21:201 Kgs 22:181 Kgs 22:8Acts 24:25Isa 49:7John 11:53-57John 7:46
Mark 11:1919When evening came, Jesus and his disciples went out of the city.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 21:37Mark 11:11John 12:36
Mark 11:2020In the morning as they passed by, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 15:13John 15:6Mark 11:14Matt 13:6Matt 21:19-22Isa 40:24Heb 6:8Isa 5:4Job 18:16-17Job 20:5-7
Mark 11:2121Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 16:22Matt 23:7Matt 25:41Prov 3:33Zech 5:3-4
Mark 11:2222Jesus said to them, “Have faith in God.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 62:8John 14:1Mark 9:232 Chr 20:20Isa 7:9Titus 1:1Col 2:12
Mark 11:2323I tell you the truth, if someone 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.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 17:20John 15:7Matt 21:21Ps 37:4John 14:13Jas 1:5-6Luke 17:6Heb 11:17-19Rom 4:18-251 Cor 13:2
Mark 11:2424For this reason I tell you, whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 21:221 John 5:14-151 John 3:22Jas 1:5-6John 15:7Matt 18:19John 14:13Matt 7:7-11John 16:23-27Luke 11:9-13
Mark 11:2525Whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven will also forgive you your sins.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 6:14-15Col 3:13Eph 4:32Luke 6:37Jas 2:13Matt 6:12Matt 5:23Matt 18:23-35Matt 6:5Luke 18:11
Mark 11:2727They came again to Jerusalem. While Jesus was walking in the temple courts, the chief priests, the experts in the law, and the elders came up to himCopy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 20:1-8Matt 21:23-27Acts 4:27-28Ps 2:1-5Acts 4:5-8John 10:23John 18:20Mark 14:1Mal 3:1
Mark 11:2828and said, “By what authority are you doing these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 2:14Acts 7:27-28Acts 7:38-39Acts 7:51Num 16:13Num 16:3
Mark 11:2929Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question. Answer me and I will tell you by what authority I do these things:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 52:13Luke 20:3-8Matt 21:24
Mark 11:3030John’s baptism—was it from heaven or from people? Answer me.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 1:15-36John 1:6-8John 3:25-36Luke 3:1-20Mark 1:1-11Mark 9:13Matt 3:1-17
Mark 11:3131They discussed with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 1:15John 1:29John 1:34John 1:36John 3:29-36Matt 11:7-14Matt 21:25-27Matt 21:31-32
Mark 11:3232But if we say, ‘From people—’” (they feared the crowd, for they all considered John to be truly a prophet).Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 12:12Matt 14:5Matt 21:46Acts 5:26John 10:41Luke 20:19Luke 20:6-8Luke 22:2Luke 7:26-29Mark 6:20
Mark 11:3333So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Then Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 6:9-102 Cor 4:3-42 Thess 2:10-122 Cor 3:15Isa 1:3Isa 29:9-14Isa 42:19-20Isa 56:10Jer 8:7-9Job 5:13
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