Matthew · Tyndale New Testament (1534)
Matthew 21 Tyndale New Testament (1534)
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1 When they drewe neye vnto Ierusalem and were come to Betphage vnto mounte olivete: then sent Iesus two of his disciples
1 When they came near to Jerusalem and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,
2 saiynge to the. Go in to the toune that lyeth over agaynste you and anone ye shall fynde an asse bounde and her colte with her: lose them and bringe them vnto me.
2 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.
3 And if eny man saye ought vnto you saye ye that the lorde hath neade of them: and streyght waye he will let them go.
3 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and immediately he will send them.”
4 All this was done to fulfyll that which was spoken by the Prophet sayinge:
4 All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,
5 Tell ye the doughter of Sion: beholde thy kynge cometh vnto the meke and sittinge vpon an asse and a colte the fole of an asse vsed to the yooke.
5 “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.”
6 The disciples went and dyd as Iesus commaunded them
6 The disciples went and did just as Jesus commanded them,
7 and brought the asse and the colte and put on them their clothes and set him theron.
7 and brought the donkey and the colt and laid their clothes on them; and he sat on them.
8 And many of the people spreed their garmentes in the waye. Other cut doune braunches from the trees and strawed them in the waye.
8 A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.
9 Moreover the people that went before and they also that came after cryed sayinge: Hosanna to the sonne of David. Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lorde Hosanna in the hyest.
9 The multitudes who went in front of him, and those who followed, kept shouting, “Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
10 And when he was come in to Ierusalem all the cyte was moved sayinge: who is this?
10 When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”
11 And the people sayde: this is Iesus the Prophet of Nazareth a cyte of Galile.
11 The multitudes said, “This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”
12 And Iesus went in to the temple of God and cast out all them that soulde and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the mony chaugers and the seates of them that solde doves
12 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.
13 and sayde to them: It is wrytten my housse shalbe called the housse of prayer. But ye have made it a denne of theves.
13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”
14 And the blinde and the halt came to him in the temple and he healed them.
14 The lame and the blind came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
15 When the chefe prestes and scribes sawe the marveylles that he dyd and the chyldren cryinge in the temple and sayinge Hosanna to the sonne of David they disdayned
15 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,
16 and sayde vnto him: hearest thou what these saye? Iesus sayde vnto them yee: have ye never redde of the mouth of babes and suckelinges thou haste ordeyned prayse?
16 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 children and nursing babies, you have perfected praise’?”
17 And he lefte the and wet out of the cite vnto Bethanie and had his abydige there.
17 He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and camped there.
18 In the mornynge as he returned in to the cyte ageyne he hungred
18 Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.
19 and spyed a fygge tree in the waye and came to it and founde nothinge theron but leves only and sayd to it never frute growe on the hence forwardes. And anon the fygge tree wyddered awaye.
19 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.
20 And when his disciples sawe that they marveled sayinge: Howe sone is the fygge tree wyddered awaye?
20 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree immediately wither away?”
21 Iesus answered and sayde vnto the: Verely I saye vnto you yf ye shall have faith and shall not dout ye shall not only do that which I have done to the fygge tree: but also yf ye shall saye vnto this moutayne take thy silfe awaye and cast thy silfe into the see it shalbe done.
21 Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done.
22 And whatsoever ye shall axe in prayer (if ye beleve) ye shall receave it.
22 All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
23 And when he was come into the temple the chefe prestes and the elders of the people came vnto him as he was teachinge and sayde: by what auctorite doest thou these thinges? and who gave the this power?
23 When he had come 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 do these things? Who gave you this authority?”
24 Iesus answered and sayde vnto them: I also will axe of you a certayne question which if ye assoyle me I in lyke wyse wyll tell you by what auctorite I do these thinges.
24 Jesus answered them, “I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things.
25 The baptisme of Iohn: whence was it? from heven or of men? Then they reasoned amonge them selves sayinge: yf we shall saye from heven he will saye vnto vs: why dyd ye not then beleve hym?
25 The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?” They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
26 But and if we shall saye of men then feare we the people. For all men helde Iohn as a Prophet.
26 But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.”
27 And they answered Iesus and sayde: we cannot tell. And he lyke wyse sayd vnto them: nether tell I you by what auctorite I do these thinges.
27 They answered Jesus, and said, “We don’t know.” He also said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.
28 What saye ye to this? A certayne man had two sonnes and came to the elder and sayde: sonne go and worke to daye in my vineyarde.
28 But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’
29 He answered and sayde I will not: but afterwarde repented and went.
29 He answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind, and went.
30 Then came he to the second and sayde lyke wyse. And he answered and sayde: I will syr: yet wet not.
30 He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I’m going, sir,’ but he didn’t go.
31 Whether of the twayne dyd the will of the father? And they sayde vnto hym: the fyrst. Iesus sayde vnto the: verely I saye vnto you that the publicans and the harlotes shall come into the kyngdome of God before you.
31 Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.
32 For Iohn came vnto you in the waye of rightewesnes and ye beleved hym not. But the publicans and the harlotes beleved him. And yet ye (though ye sawe it) were not yet moved with repentaunce that ye myght afterwarde have beleved hym.
32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him; but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.
33 Herken another similitude. Ther was a certayne housholder which planted a vineyarde and hedged it roude about and made a wynpresse in it and bilt a tower and let it out to husbandmen and wet in to a straunge countre.
33 “Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.
34 And when the tyme of the frute drewe neare he sent his servauntes to the husbandmen to receave the frutes of it.
34 When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruit.
35 And the husbandme caught his servauntes and bet one kylled another and stoned another.
35 The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
36 Agayne he sent other servantes moo then the fyrst: and they served them lyke wyse.
36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first; and they treated them the same way.
37 But last of all he sent vnto the his awne sonne sayinge: they will feare my sonne.
37 But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
38 But when the husbandmen sawe the sonne they sayde amonge the selves: This is the heyre: come let vs kyll him and let vs take his inheritaunce to oure selves.
38 But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and seize his inheritance.’
39 And they caught him and thrust him out of the vineyarde and slewe him.
39 So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard, then killed him.
40 When the lorde of the vyneyarde commeth what will he do with those husbandmen?
40 When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”
41 They sayde vnto him: he will cruellye destroye those evyll persons and wyll let out his vyneyarde vnto other husbandmen which shall delyver him the frute at tymes convenient.
41 They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers who will give him the fruit in its season.”
42 Iesus sayde vnto the: dyd ye never redde in the scriptures? The stone which the bylders refused the same is set in the principall parte of the corner: this was the lordes doinge and that is mervelous in oure eyes.
42 Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes’?
43 Therfore saye I vnto you the kyngdome of God shalbe take from you and shalbe geve to the getyls which shall brynge forth the frutes of it.
43 “Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.
44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone he shalbe broken but on whosoever it shall fall vpon it will grynde him to powder.
44 He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”
45 And when the chefe prestes and Pharises hearde these similitudes they perceaved that he spake of the.
45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.
46 And they wet about to laye hondes on him but they feared the people because they tooke him as a Prophet.
46 When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.
Cross references (46)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Zechariah 14:4; Mark 11:1–10; Luke 21:37; Matthew 26:30; Matthew 24:3
- 2 Luke 19:30–32; Mark 11:2–3; John 2:5–8; Mark 14:13–16; Matthew 26:18
- 3 2 Corinthians 8:1–2; Acts 17:25; John 3:35; 2 Corinthians 8:9; Psalm 50:10–11
- 4 Zechariah 9:9; John 12:15; Matthew 1:22; Matthew 26:56; John 19:36–37
- 5 Zechariah 9:9–10; Isaiah 62:11; Isaiah 9:6–7; Isaiah 12:6; Genesis 49:10
- 6 Genesis 6:22; 1 Samuel 15:11; Genesis 12:4; Exodus 39:43; John 15:14
- 7 2 Kings 9:13; Mark 11:4–8; Luke 19:32–35
- 8 2 Kings 9:13; Leviticus 23:40; John 12:13
- 9 Psalm 118:24–26; Luke 2:14; John 12:13–15; Matthew 23:39; Luke 19:37–38
- 10 Acts 9:5; Luke 7:49; John 12:16–19; Luke 9:9; Ruth 1:19
- 11 John 6:14; Luke 7:16; John 7:40; Acts 7:37; Matthew 2:23
- 12 John 2:14–17; Luke 19:45–47; Mark 11:15–18; Leviticus 1:14; Leviticus 5:7
- 13 Jeremiah 7:11; Isaiah 56:7; Luke 19:46; Mark 11:17; Psalm 93:5
- 14 Acts 3:1–9; Acts 10:38; Matthew 9:35; Isaiah 35:5; Matthew 11:4–5
- 15 Matthew 21:9; Luke 19:39–40; Matthew 22:42; Matthew 21:23; John 4:1
- 16 Psalm 8:2; Matthew 11:25; Luke 19:39–40; Matthew 19:4; Matthew 12:3
- 17 John 11:18; Mark 11:11; John 11:1; Luke 24:50; Matthew 16:4
- 18 Matthew 4:2; Hebrews 4:15; Mark 11:12–14; Mark 11:20–24; Matthew 12:1
- 19 Mark 11:14; John 15:6; Titus 1:16; Luke 13:6–9; Luke 3:9
- 20 Isaiah 40:6–8; Mark 11:20–21; James 1:10–11
- 21 James 1:6; Matthew 17:20; Mark 11:22–23; Luke 17:6–7; Romans 4:19–20
- 22 Matthew 7:7; 1 John 5:14–15; Mark 11:24; 1 John 3:22; John 14:13
- 23 Acts 4:7; Mark 11:27–33; 1 Chronicles 24:1–19; Matthew 26:55; Luke 19:47–20:8
- 24 Luke 6:9; Colossians 4:6; Matthew 10:16; Proverbs 26:4–5
- 25 1 John 3:20; Mark 1:1–11; John 10:25–26; Luke 20:5; John 3:18
- 26 Mark 6:20; Matthew 14:5; Matthew 21:46; John 5:35; Matthew 11:9
- 27 Romans 1:18–22; 2 Thessalonians 2:9–10; John 9:30; 2 Corinthians 4:3; Isaiah 28:9
- 28 Matthew 20:1; 1 Corinthians 15:58; Mark 13:34; 1 Corinthians 10:15; Luke 15:11–32
- 29 Ezekiel 18:28–32; Daniel 4:34–37; Ephesians 2:1–13; Matthew 3:2–8; Isaiah 1:16–19
- 30 Titus 1:16; Ezekiel 33:31; Matthew 23:3; Romans 2:17–25
- 31 Luke 7:29; Luke 7:37–50; Matthew 7:21; 2 Peter 3:9; Matthew 20:16
- 32 Luke 7:37–50; Luke 7:29–30; Matthew 21:25; Zechariah 7:11–12; 2 Peter 2:21
- 33 Isaiah 5:1–4; Mark 12:1–12; Luke 20:9–19; Jeremiah 2:21; John 15:1
- 34 Luke 20:10–19; Isaiah 5:4; Zechariah 1:3–6; Nehemiah 9:29–30; 2 Kings 17:13–23
- 35 2 Chronicles 36:15–16; Hebrews 11:36–37; Matthew 5:12; Nehemiah 9:26; Acts 7:52
- 36 Matthew 22:4
- 37 John 3:16; Zephaniah 3:7; John 3:35–36; Matthew 3:17; Luke 20:13
- 38 Luke 20:14; Genesis 37:18–20; Mark 12:7–8; Hebrews 1:2; Acts 4:27–28
- 39 Acts 2:23; John 18:12; Luke 22:52–54; Acts 3:14–15; James 5:6
- 40 Hebrews 10:29; Mark 12:9; Luke 20:15–16
- 41 Acts 18:6; Matthew 21:43; Isaiah 5:5–7; Acts 28:28; Matthew 22:6–7
- 42 Psalm 118:22–23; Isaiah 28:16; Acts 4:11; 1 Peter 2:4–8; Ephesians 2:20
- 43 Matthew 21:41; Matthew 8:11–12; 1 Peter 2:9; John 3:3; Luke 17:20–21
- 44 Isaiah 8:14–15; 1 Peter 2:8; Daniel 2:34–35; Daniel 2:44–45; Romans 9:33
- 45 Luke 20:19; Luke 11:45; Matthew 12:12
- 46 Matthew 21:11; Matthew 21:26; John 7:40–41; Acts 2:22; Luke 7:16
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
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Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
… and did truly vindicate His own house, by driving out of it the changers of money, who were buying and selling, saying unto them: "It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves." And what reason had He for thus doing and saying, and vindicating His house, if …
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)