Mattheum 21
1 Et cum appropinquassent Ierosolymis, et venissent Bethphage ad Montem Oliveti: tunc Iesus misit duos discipulos,
When they had almost reached Jerusalem, having come as far as Bethphage, on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent on two disciples.
2 dicens eis: Ite in castellum, quod contra vos est, et statim invenietis asinam alligatam, et pullum cum ea: solvite, et adducite mihi:
‘Go to the village facing you,’ he said, ‘and you will immediately find a donkey tethered, with a foal by her side; untie her, and lead her here for me.
3 et si quis vobis aliquid dixerit, dicite quia Dominus his opus habet: et confestim dimittet eos.
And, if anyone says anything to you, you are to say this – “The Master wants them”; and he will send them at once.’
4 Hoc autem totum factum est, ut adimpleretur quod dictum est per prophetam, dicentem:
This happened in fulfilment of these words in the prophet –
5 Dicite filiæ Sion: Ecce Rex tuus venit tibi mansuetus, sedens super asinam, et pullum filium subiugalis.
“Say to the people of Zion – ‘Your King is coming to you, gentle, and riding on a donkey, and on the foal of a beast of burden.’”
6 Euntes autem discipuli fecerunt sicut præcepit illis Iesus.
So the disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them.
7 Et adduxerunt asinam, et pullum: et imposuerunt super eos vestimenta sua, et eum desuper sedere fecerunt.
They led the donkey and the foal back, and, when they had put their cloaks on them, he seated himself on them.
8 Plurima autem turba straverunt vestimenta sua in via: alii autem cædebant ramos de arboribus, et sternebant in via:
The immense crowd of people spread their cloaks in the road, while some cut branches off the trees, and spread them on the road.
9 turbæ autem, quæ præcedebant, et quæ sequebantur, clamabant, dicentes: Hosanna Filio David: benedictus, qui venit in nomine Domini: hosanna in altissimis.
The crowds that led the way, as well as those that followed behind, kept shouting, ‘God save the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! God save him from on high!’
10 Et cum intrasset Ierosolymam, commota est universa civitas, dicens: Quis est hic?
When he had entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred, and asked –
11 Populi autem dicebant: Hic est Iesus Propheta a Nazareth Galilææ.
‘Who is this?’, to which the crowd replied – ‘This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee.’
12 Et intravit Iesus in templum Dei, et eiiciebat omnes vendentes, et ementes in templo, et mensas numulariorum, et cathedras vendentium columbas evertit:
Jesus went into the Temple Courts, and drove out all those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers, and the seats of the pigeon-dealers,
13 et dicit eis: Scriptum est: Domus mea domus orationis vocabitur: vos autem fecistis illam speluncam latronum.
and said to them, ‘Scripture says “My house will be called a house of prayer”; but you are making it a den of robbers.’
14 Et accesserunt ad eum cæci, et claudi in templo: et sanavit eos.
While he was still in the Temple Courts, some blind and some lame people came up to him, and he cured them.
15 Videntes autem principes sacerdotum, et Scribæ mirabilia, quæ fecit, et pueros clamantes in templo, et dicentes: Hosanna Filio David: indignati sunt,
But, when the chief priests and the teachers of the Law saw the wonderful things that Jesus did, and the boys who were calling out in the Temple Courts ‘God save the Son of David!’, they were indignant,
16 et dixerunt ei: Audis quid isti dicunt? Iesus autem dixit eis: Utique. Numquam legistis: Quia ex ore infantium, et lactentium perfecisti laudem?
and said to him, ‘Do you hear what these boys are saying?’ ‘Yes,’ answered Jesus, ‘but did you never read the words – “Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings you have called forth perfect praise”?’
17 Et relictis illis, abiit foras extra Civitatem in Bethaniam: ibique mansit.
Then he left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.
18 Mane autem revertens in Civitatem, esuriit.
The next morning, in returning to the city, Jesus became hungry;
19 Et videns fici arborem unam secus viam, venit ad eam: et nihil invenit in ea nisi folia tantum, et ait illi: Numquam ex te fructus nascatur in sempiternum. Et arefacta est continuo ficulnea. (aiōn g165)
and, noticing a solitary fig tree by the roadside, he went up to it, but found nothing on it but leaves. So he said to it, ‘Never again will fruit be gathered off you.’ And suddenly the fruit tree withered up. (aiōn g165)
20 Et videntes discipuli, mirati sunt, dicentes: Quomodo continuo aruit?
When the disciples saw this, they exclaimed in astonishment, ‘How suddenly the fig tree withered up!’
21 Respondens autem Iesus, ait eis: Amen dico vobis, si habueritis fidem, et non hæsitaveritis, non solum de ficulnea facietis, sed et si monti huic dixeritis, Tolle, et iacta te in mare, fiet.
‘I tell you,’ replied Jesus, ‘if you have faith, without ever a doubt, you will do what not only what has been done to the fig tree, but, even if you should say to this hill “Be lifted up and hurled into the sea!” it would be done.
22 Et omnia quæcumque petieritis in oratione credentes, accipietis.
And whatever you ask for in your prayers will, if you have faith, be granted you.’
23 Et cum venisset in templum, accesserunt ad eum docentem, principes sacerdotum, et seniores populi, dicentes: In qua potestate hæc facis? Et quis tibi dedit hanc potestatem?
After Jesus had come into the Temple Courts, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and said, ‘What authority have you to do these things? Who gave you this authority?’
24 Respondens Iesus dixit eis: Interrogabo vos et ego unum sermonem: quem si dixeritis mihi, et ego vobis dicam in qua potestate hæc facio.
‘I, too,’ said Jesus in reply, ‘will ask you one question; if you will give me an answer to it, then I, also, will tell you what authority I have to act as I do.
25 Baptismus Ioannis unde erat? e cælo, an ex hominibus? At illi cogitabant inter se, dicentes:
It is about John’s baptism. What was its origin? Divine or human?’ But they began arguing among themselves, ‘If we say “divine,” he will say to us “Why then didn’t you believe him?”
26 Si dixerimus, e cælo, dicet nobis: Quare ergo non credidistis illi? Si autem dixerimus, ex hominibus, timemus turbam: omnes enim habebant Ioannem sicut prophetam.
But if we say “human,” we are afraid of the people, for everyone regards John as a prophet.’
27 Et respondentes Iesu, dixerunt: Nescimus. Ait illis et ipse: Nec ego dico vobis in qua potestate hæc facio.
So the answer they gave Jesus was – ‘We do not know.’ ‘Then I,’ he said, ‘refuse to tell you what authority I have to do these things.
28 Quid autem vobis videtur? Homo quidam habebat duos filios, et accedens ad primum, dixit: Fili, vade hodie, operare in vinea mea.
What do you think of this? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the elder and said “Go and work in the vineyard today my son.”
29 Ille autem respondens, ait: Nolo. Postea autem, pœnitentia motus, abiit.
“Yes, sir,” he answered; but he did not go.
30 Accedens autem ad alterum, dixit similiter. At ille respondens, ait: Eo, domine, et non ivit.
Then the father went to the second son, and said the same. “I will not,” he answered; but afterwards he was sorry and went.
31 Quis ex duobus fecit voluntatem patris? Dicunt ei: Primus. Dicit illis Iesus: Amen dico vobis, quia publicani, et meretrices præcedent vos in regnum Dei.
Which of the two sons did as his father wished?’ ‘The second,’ they said. ‘I tell you,’ added Jesus, ‘that tax collectors and prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God before you.
32 Venit enim ad vos Ioannes in via iustitiæ, et non credidistis ei. Publicani autem, et meretrices crediderunt ei: vos autem videntes nec pœnitentiam habuistis postea, ut crederetis ei.
For when John came to you, walking in the path of righteousness, you did not believe him, but tax collectors and prostitutes did; and yet you, though you saw this, even then were not sorry, nor did you believe him.
33 Aliam parabolam audite: Homo erat paterfamilias, qui plantavit vineam, et sepem circumdedit ei, et fodit in ea torcular, et ædificavit turrim, et locavit eam agricolis, et peregre profectus est.
‘Listen to another parable. A man, who was an employer, once planted a vineyard, put a fence round it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, and then let it out to tenants and went abroad.
34 Cum autem tempus fructuum appropinquasset, misit servos suos ad agricolas, ut acciperent fructus eius.
When the time for the grape harvest drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants, to receive his share of the produce.
35 Et agricolæ, apprehensis servis eius, alium ceciderunt, alium occiderunt, alium vero lapidaverunt.
But the tenants seized his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
36 Iterum misit alios servos plures prioribus, et fecerunt illis similiter.
A second time the owner sent some servants, a larger number than before, and the tenants treated them in the same way.
37 Novissime autem misit ad eos filium suum, dicens: Verebuntur filium meum.
As a last resource he sent his son to them. “They will respect my son,” he said.
38 Agricolæ autem videntes filium, dixerunt intra se: Hic est hæres, venite, occidamus eum, et habebimus hereditatem eius.
But the tenants, on seeing his son, said to each other “Here is the heir! Come, let us kill him, and get his inheritance.”
39 Et apprehensum eum eiecerunt extra vineam, et occiderunt.
So they seized him, and threw him outside the vineyard, and killed him.
40 Cum ergo venerit dominus vineæ, quid faciet agricolis illis?
Now, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?’
41 Aiunt illi: Malos male perdet: et vineam suam locabit aliis agricolis, qui reddant ei fructum temporibus suis.
‘Miserable wretches!’ they exclaimed, ‘he will put them to a miserable death, and he will let out the vineyard to other tenants, who will pay him his share of the produce at the proper times.’
42 Dicit illis Iesus: Numquam legistis in Scripturis: Lapidem, quem reprobaverunt ædificantes, hic factus est in caput anguli. A Domino factum est istud, et est mirabile in oculis nostris:
Then Jesus added, ‘Have you never read in the scriptures? – “The stone which the builders despised – has now itself become the cornerstone. This cornerstone has come from the Lord, and is marvellous in our eyes.”
43 ideo dico vobis, quia auferetur a vobis regnum Dei, et dabitur genti facienti fructus eius.
That, I tell you, is why the kingdom of God will be taken from you, and given to a nation that does produce the fruit of the kingdom.
44 Et qui ceciderit super lapidem istum, confringetur: super quem vero ceciderit, conteret eum.
Yes, and he who falls on this stone will be dashed to pieces, while anyone on whom it falls – it will scatter him as dust.’
45 Et cum audissent principes sacerdotum, et Pharisæi parabolas eius, cognoverunt quod de ipsis diceret.
After listening to these parables, the chief priests and the Pharisees saw that it was about them that he was speaking;
46 Et quærentes eum tenere, timuerunt turbas: quoniam sicut prophetam eum habebant.
yet, although eager to arrest him, they were afraid of the crowds, who regarded him as a prophet.
