Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NASB95

NASB95

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Matthew 21 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

The Triumphal Entry

(Mar 11:1–10; Luk 19:28–40; Jhn 12:12–19 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:1 - When they had approached Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:2 - saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied there and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to Me.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:3 - “If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of them,’ and immediately he will send them.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:4 - This [fn]took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet:

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:5 - “SAY TO THE DAUGHTER OF ZION,
‘BEHOLD YOUR KING IS COMING TO YOU,
GENTLE, AND MOUNTED ON A DONKEY,
EVEN ON A COLT, THE FOAL OF A BEAST OF BURDEN.’”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:6 - The disciples went and did just as Jesus had instructed them,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:7 - and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their coats on them; and He sat on [fn]the coats.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:8 - Most of the crowd spread their coats in the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them in the road.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:9 - The crowds going ahead of Him, and those who followed, were shouting,
“Hosanna to the Son of David;
BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD;
Hosanna in the highest!”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:10 - When He had entered Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, “Who is this?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:11 - And the crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth in Galilee.”

Cleansing the Temple

(Mar 11:15–19; Luk 19:45–48; Jhn 2:13–22 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:12 - And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:13 - And He *said to them, “It is written, ‘MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER’; but you are making it a ROBBERS’ [fn]DEN.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:14 - And the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:15 - But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that He had done, and the children who were shouting in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became indignant

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:16 - and said to Him, “Do You hear what these children are saying?” And Jesus *said to them, “Yes; have you never read, ‘OUT OF THE MOUTH OF INFANTS AND NURSING BABIES YOU HAVE PREPARED PRAISE FOR YOURSELF’?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:17 - And He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.

The Barren Fig Tree

(Mar 11:12–14 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:18 - Now in the morning, when He was returning to the city, He became hungry.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:19 - Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it except leaves only; and He *said to it, “No longer shall there ever be any fruit from you.” And at once the fig tree withered.
(Mar 11:20–24 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:20 - Seeing this, the disciples were amazed and asked, “How did the fig tree wither all at once?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:21 - And Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it will happen.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:22 - “And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

Authority Challenged

(Mar 11:27–33; Luk 20:1–8 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:23 - When He entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to Him while He was teaching, and said, “By what authority are You doing these things, and who gave You this authority?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:24

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:24 - Jesus said to them, “I will also ask you one [fn]thing, which if you tell Me, I will also tell you by what authority I do these things.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:25 - “The baptism of John was from what source, from heaven or from men?” And they began reasoning among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say to us, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:26 - “But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the [fn]people; for they all regard John as a prophet.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:27 - And answering Jesus, they said, “We do not know.” He also said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

Parable of Two Sons

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:28 - “But what do you think? A man had two [fn]sons, and he came to the first and said, ‘[fn]Son, go work today in the vineyard.’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:29 - “And he answered, ‘I will not’; but afterward he regretted it and went.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:30

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:30 - “The man came to the second and said the same thing; and he answered, ‘I will, sir’; but he did not go.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:31

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:31 - “Which of the two did the will of his father?” They *said, “The first.” Jesus *said to them, “Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and prostitutes [fn]will get into the kingdom of God before you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:32 - “For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him; and you, seeing this, did not even feel remorse afterward so as to believe him.

Parable of the Landowner

(Mar 12:1–12; Luk 20:9–19 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:33 - “Listen to another parable. There was a [fn]landowner who PLANTED A VINEYARD AND PUT A WALL AROUND IT AND DUG A WINE PRESS IN IT, AND BUILT A TOWER, and rented it out to [fn]vine-growers and went on a journey.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:34

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:34 - “When the [fn]harvest time approached, he sent his slaves to the vine-growers to receive his produce.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:35 - “The vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:36

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:36 - “Again he sent another group of slaves larger than the first; and they did the same thing to them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:37

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:37 - “But afterward he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:38

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:38 - “But when the vine-growers saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:39

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:39 - “They took him, and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:40

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:40 - “Therefore when the [fn]owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine-growers?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:41

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:41 - They *said to Him, “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, and will rent out the vineyard to other vine-growers who will pay him the proceeds at the proper seasons.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:42

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:42 - Jesus *said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures,
‘THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED,
THIS BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone;
THIS CAME ABOUT FROM THE LORD,
AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES’?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:43

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:43 - “Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a [fn]people, producing the fruit of it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:44

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:44 - “And he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:45

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:45 - When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they understood that He was speaking about them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:46

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:46 - When they sought to seize Him, they feared the [fn]people, because they considered Him to be a prophet.
See the NASB95 Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NASB95 Footnotes
Literally: has happened
Literally: them
Literally: cave
Literally: word
Literally: crowd
Literally: children
Literally: Child
Literally: are getting into
Literally: a man, head of a household
Or, tenant farmers, also vv 34, 35, 38, 40
Literally: the fruit season
Literally: lord
Literally: nation
Literally: crowds
*
See the NASB95 Preface for an explanation on the use of the asterisk.
NASB95

New American Standard Bible 1995
Copyright (c) 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995
by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif.
All rights reserved
https://www.lockman.org/new-american-standard-bible-nasb/

The "NASB," "NAS," "New American Standard Bible," and "New American Standard" trademarks are registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by The Lockman Foundation. Use of these trademarks requires the permission of The Lockman Foundation.

For Permission To Quote visit http://www.lockman.org

For more information on this translation, see the NASB95 Preface.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NASB95
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NASB95
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Matthew Chapter 21 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Morphological Greek New Testament Textus Receptus Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras