Mateus 21— comparação

1Quando se aproximaram de Jerusalém e chegaram a Betesfagé, ao Monte das Oliveiras, Jesus enviou dois discípulos,

2dizendo-lhes: “Vão ao povoado que está em frente a vocês, e logo encontrarão uma jumenta amarrada, e um jumentinho com ela. Desamarrem-nos e tragam-nos para mim.

3Se alguém lhes disser alguma coisa, vocês dirão: 'O Senhor precisa deles', e logo ele os enviará.”

4Tudo isso aconteceu para que se cumprisse o que foi dito por meio do profeta, que disse:

5“Diga à filha de Sião:

6Os discípulos foram e fizeram exatamente como Jesus lhes havia ordenado.

7Trouxeram a jumenta e o jumentinho, colocaram suas roupas sobre eles, e ele montou.

8Uma multidão muito grande estendeu suas roupas pelo caminho. Outros cortaram ramos de árvores e os espalharam pelo caminho.

9As multidões que iam adiante dele, e os que o seguiam, clamavam: “Hosana ao Filho de Davi! Bendito é o que vem em nome do Senhor! Hosana nas maiores alturas!”

10Quando ele entrou em Jerusalém, toda a cidade se agitou, perguntando: “Quem é este?”

11As multidões respondiam: “Este é o profeta, Jesus, de Nazaré da Galileia.”

12Jesus entrou no templo de Deus e expulsou todos os que vendiam e compravam no templo, e derrubou as mesas dos cambistas e as cadeiras dos que vendiam pombas.

13Ele lhes disse: “Está escrito: 'A minha casa será chamada casa de oração', mas vocês fizeram dela um covil de ladrões!”

14Os cegos e os mancos vieram a ele no templo, e ele os curou.

15Mas quando os principais sacerdotes e os escribas viram as maravilhas que ele fazia, e as crianças clamando no templo e dizendo: “Hosana ao Filho de Davi!”, ficaram indignados,

16e lhe disseram: “Você está ouvindo o que estes estão dizendo?”

17Ele os deixou e saiu da cidade para Betânia, e acampou ali.

18De manhã, ao voltar para a cidade, ele teve fome.

19Vendo uma figueira à beira do caminho, aproximou-se dela e não encontrou nada nela, a não ser folhas. Ele lhe disse: “Nunca mais nasça fruto de você!”

20Quando os discípulos viram isso, ficaram maravilhados e disseram: “Como a figueira secou tão depressa?”

21Jesus lhes respondeu: “Em verdade, em verdade lhes digo: se vocês tiverem fé e não duvidarem, não apenas farão o que foi feito à figueira, mas até mesmo se disserem a este monte: 'Levante-se e jogue-se no mar', isso será feito.

22E tudo o que pedirem em oração, crendo, vocês receberão.”

23Quando ele entrou no templo, os principais sacerdotes e os anciãos do povo se aproximaram dele enquanto ele ensinava, e perguntaram: “Com que autoridade você faz estas coisas? E quem lhe deu essa autoridade?”

24Jesus lhes respondeu: “Eu também lhes farei uma pergunta; se me responderem, eu também lhes direi com que autoridade faço estas coisas.

25O batismo de João, de onde era? Do céu ou dos homens?”

26Mas se dissermos: 'Dos homens', temos medo da multidão, pois todos consideram João como um profeta.”

27Então responderam a Jesus: “Não sabemos.”

28Mas o que vocês acham? Um homem tinha dois filhos; chegando ao primeiro, disse: 'Filho, vá trabalhar hoje na minha vinha.'

29Ele respondeu: 'Não quero', mas depois mudou de ideia e foi.

30Chegando ao segundo, disse a mesma coisa. Ele respondeu: 'Eu vou, senhor', mas não foi.

31Qual dos dois fez a vontade do pai?”

32Porque João veio a vocês no caminho da justiça, e vocês não creram nele; mas os cobradores de impostos e as prostitutas creram nele. E vocês, mesmo depois de verem isso, não se arrependeram para crer nele.

33“Ouçam outra parábola. Havia um homem, dono de uma propriedade, que plantou uma vinha, cercou-a com uma sebe, cavou nela um lagar, construiu uma torre, arrendou-a a lavradores e viajou para outro país.

34Quando se aproximou o tempo da colheita, ele enviou seus servos aos lavradores para receber os seus frutos.

35Os lavradores agarraram os servos dele, espancaram um, mataram outro e apedrejaram o terceiro.

36Novamente, ele enviou outros servos, em maior número que os primeiros; e eles os trataram da mesma forma.

37Por fim, ele lhes enviou o seu filho, dizendo: 'Eles respeitarão o meu filho.'

38Mas os lavradores, quando viram o filho, disseram entre si: 'Este é o herdeiro. Venham, vamos matá-lo e tomar posse da sua herança.'

39Então eles o agarraram, lançaram-no para fora da vinha e o mataram.

40Portanto, quando vier o senhor da vinha, o que ele fará àqueles lavradores?”

41Eles lhe disseram: “Ele destruirá miseravelmente aqueles homens miseráveis, e arrendará a vinha a outros lavradores, que lhe darão os frutos no tempo certo.”

42Jesus lhes disse: “Vocês nunca leram nas Escrituras:

43“Portanto, eu lhes digo que o Reino de Deus será tirado de vocês e será dado a uma nação que produza os seus frutos.

44Aquele que cair sobre esta pedra será despedaçado, mas aquele sobre quem ela cair será reduzido a pó.”

45Quando os principais sacerdotes e os fariseus ouviram as suas parábolas, perceberam que ele falava a respeito deles.

46E, embora procurassem prendê-lo, tiveram medo das multidões, porque elas o consideravam um profeta.

1When they came near to Jerusalem and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

2saying 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. *

3If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and immediately he will send them.”*

4All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,

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.”

6The disciples went and did just as Jesus commanded them,

7and brought the donkey and the colt and laid their clothes on them; and he sat on them.

8A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.

9The 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!”

10When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”

11The multitudes said, “This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”

12Jesus 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.

13He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’* but you have made it a den of robbers!”*

14The lame and the blind came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

15But 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,

16and 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’?”*

17He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and camped there.

18Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.

19Seeing 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.

20When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree immediately wither away?”

21Jesus 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. *

22All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”*

23When 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?”

24Jesus 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. *

25The 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?’

26But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.”

27They 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. *

28But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’ *

29He answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind, and went. *

30He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I’m going, sir,’ but he didn’t go. *

31Which 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. *

32For 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“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. *

34When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruit. *

35The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. *

36Again, he sent other servants more than the first; and they treated them the same way. *

37But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ *

38But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and seize his inheritance.’ *

39So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard, then killed him. *

40When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”*

41They 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.”

42Jesus 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“Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you and will be given to a nation producing its fruit. *

44He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”*

45When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.

46When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.