1 و َإذِ اقتَرَبُوا مِنَ مَدينَةِ القُدسِ، وَجاءوا إلَى بَلْدَةَ بَيتَ فاجِي قُرْبَ جَبَلِ الزَّيتُونِ، أرسَلَ يَسُوعُ اثْنَينِ مِنْ تَلامِيذِهِ،

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

2 و َقالَ لَهُما: «اذهَبا إلَى القَرْيَةِ الَّتِي أمامَكُما. وَسَتَجِدانِ حِماراً صَغيراً إلَى جانِبِ أُمِّهِ مَربوطينِ، فَحُلّاهُما وَأتِيانِي بِهِما.

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 و َإنْ قالَ أحَدٌ لَكُما شَيئاً، قُولا لَهُ: ‹الرَّبُّ يَحتاجُ إلَيهِما، وَسَيُعيدُهُما قَريباً.›»

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

4 ح َدَثَ هَذا لِكَي يَتِمَّ ما قالَهُ النَّبِيُّ:

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

5 « قُولُوا لِلمَدِينَةِ العَزِيزَةِ صِهْيَوْنَ: ‹ها إنَّ مَلِكَكِ آتٍ إلَيكِ، مُتَواضِعاً وَراكِباً عَلَى حِمارٍ، حِمارٍ صَغيرٍ ابنِ دابَّةٍ أُعِدَّتْ لِلعَمَلِ.›»

“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 ف َذَهَبَ التِّلمِيذانِ وَعَمِلا كَما قالَ يَسُوعَ.

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

7 ف َأتَيا بِالحِمارِ الصَّغيرِ وَأُمِّهِ وَوَضَعا عَلَيهِما ثِيابَهُما، فَجَلَسَ يَسُوعُ عَلَى الثِّيابِ.

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

8 و َكانَ مُعظَمُ النّاسِ يَفرِشُونَ أردِيَتَهُمْ عَلَى الطَّرِيقِ. وَلَكِنَّ آخَرِينَ قَطَعُوا أغصاناً مِنَ الأشجارِ وَفَرَشُوها عَلَى الطَّرِيقِ.

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

9 و َجُمُوعُ النّاسِ الَّذِينَ كانُوا يَسِيرُونَ أمامَهُ وَخَلْفَهُ كانُوا يَهتِفُونَ: «يَعيشُ المَلِكُ! يَعيشُ ابْنُ داوُدَ. ‹مُبارَكٌ هُوَ الآتِي بِاسْمِ الرَّبِّ.› يَعيشُ المَلِكُ فِي عُلاهُ.»

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 و َعِندَما دَخَلَ يَسُوعُ مَدِينَةَ القُدسِ، اهتَزَّتِ المَدِينَةُ كُلُّها. وَكانَ النّاسُ يَسألُونَ: «مَنْ هُوَ هَذا الرَّجُلُ؟»

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

11 و َكانَتِ الجُمُوعُ الَّتِي تَتبَعُهُ تَقُولُ: «هَذا هُوَ النَّبِيُّ يَسُوعُ، الَّذِي مِنْ مَدِينَةِ النّاصِرَةِ، مِنْ إقليمِ الجَلِيلِ.» يَسُوعُ فِي الهَيكَل

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

12 ث ُمَّ دَخَلَ يَسُوعُ ساحَةَ الهَيكَلِ، وَطَرَدَ كُلَّ الَّذِينَ كانُوا يَبِيعُونَ وَيَشتَرُونَ فِي ساحَةِ الهَيكَلِ. وَقَلَبَ مَوائِدَ الصَّرّافينَ وَمَقاعِدَ باعَةِ الحَمامِ.

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 و َقالَ لَهُمْ: «مَكتوبٌ ‹بَيتِي يُدعَى بَيتَ صَلاةٍ› لَكِنَّكُمْ تُحَوِّلُونَهُ إلَى ‹وَكْرِ لُصُوصِ!› »

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 و َجاءَ إلَيهِ بَعضُ العُمْيِ وَالعُرجِ فِي ساحَةِ الهَيكَلِ فَشَفاهُمْ.

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

15 و َرَأى كِبارُ الكَهَنَةِ وَمُعَلِّمُو الشَّرِيعَةِ العَجائِبَ الَّتِي عَمِلَها، وَرَأَوْا الأطفالَ يَهتِفُونَ فِي ساحَةِ الهَيكَلِ: «يَعيشُ المَلِكُ! يَعيشُ ابْنُ داوُدَ،» فَغَضِبُوا جِدّاً وَقالُوا لَهُ: «ألا تَسمَعُ ما يَقُولُهُ هَؤُلاءِ الأطفالُ؟»

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 ف َأجابَ يَسُوعُ: «بَلَى، وَلَكِنْ أما قَرَأتُمْ فِي الكِتابِ: ‹مِنْ أفواهِ الأطفالِ وَالرُّضَّعِ، صَنَعْتَ تَسبِيحاً›؟»

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 babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?’”

17 ث ُمَّ تَرَكَهُمْ يَسُوعُ وَخَرَجَ مِنَ المَدِينَةِ إلَى بَلْدَةِ بَيتِ عَنْيا، وَأمضَى اللَّيلَةَ هُناكَ. قُوَّةُ الإيمان

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

18 و َبَينَما كانَ يَسُوعُ ذاهِباً فِي الصَّباحِ الباكِرِ إلَى المَدِينَةِ، جاعَ.

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

19 و َرَأى شَجَرَةَ تِينٍ عَلَى جانِبِ الطَّرِيقِ، فَتَوَجَّهَ إلَيها، لَكِنَّهُ لَمْ يَجِدْ عَلَيها سِوَى الأوراقِ، فَقالَ لَها: «لَنْ تُنتِجِي ثِماراً فِيما بَعْدُ.» فَجَفَّتْ شَجَرَةُ التِّينِ فِي الحالِ.

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 ف َلَمّا رَأى التَّلامِيذُ هَذا تَعَجَّبوا وَسَألُوهُ: «كَيفَ جَفَّتْ شَجَرَةُ التِّينِ هَكَذا؟»

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

21 ف َأجابَهُمْ: «أقولُ الحَقَّ لَكُمْ، إنْ كانَ لَدَيكُمْ إيمانٌ وَلا تَشُكُّونَ، فَلَنْ تَكُونُوا قادِرِينَ فَقَط عَلَى عَمَلِ ما عَمِلْتُهُ أنا بِشَجَرَةِ التِّينِ، بَلْ إنْ قُلْتُمْ لِهَذا الجَبَلِ ‹لِتُقلَعْ مِنْ مَكانِكَ وَتُلْقَ فِيْ البَحْرِ،› فَإنَّ كَلامَكُم سَيَتَحَقَّقُ.

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 و َكُلُّ ما تَطلُبُونَهُ وَأنْتُمْ تُصَلُّونَ، فَإنَّكُمْ سَتَنالُونَهُ إنْ آمَنْتُمْ.» التّشكيكُ بِسُلطانِ يَسُوع

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

23 و َذَهَبَ يَسُوعُ إلَى ساحَةِ الهَيكَلِ، وَجاءَ إلَيهِ كِبارُ الكَهَنَةِ وَشُيُوخُ الشَّعبِ بَينَما كانَ يُعَلِّمُ، وَقالُوا لَهُ: «أخبِرنا بِأيِّ سُلطانٍ تَفعَلُ هَذِهِ الأشياءَ، وَمَنِ الَّذِي أعطاكَ هَذا السُّلطانَ؟»

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 ف َأجابَهُمْ يَسُوعُ: «وَسَأسألُكُمْ أنا أيضاً، فَأجيبونِي أُخبِرْكُمْ بِأيِّ سُلطانٍ أعمَلُ هَذِهِ الأُمُورَ:

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 م ِنْ أينَ جاءَتْ مَعمُودِيَّةُ يُوحَنّا؟ مِنَ اللهِ أمْ مِنَ النّاسِ؟» فَابْتَدَأُوا يُناقِشُونَ ذَلِكَ فِيما بَينَهُمْ وَيَقولونَ: «إنْ قُلْنا إنَّها مِنَ اللهِ فَسَيَسْألُنا: ‹لِماذا لَمْ تُؤْمِنُوا بِهِ؟›

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 و َإنْ قُلْنا إنَّها مِنَ النّاسِ، فَإنَّنا نَخافُ مِنَ النّاسِ، لِأنَّهُمْ جَمِيعاً يَعتَبِرُونَ يُوحَنّا نَبِيّاً.»

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

27 ل ِذَلِكَ أجابُوا يَسُوعَ وَقالوا: «لا نَعلَمُ.» فَقالَ لَهُمْ يَسُوعُ: «وَلا أنا أُخبِرُكُمْ بِأيِّ سُلطانٍ أفعَلُ هَذِهِ الأُمُورَ.» مَثَلُ الابنَين

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 و َقالَ يَسُوعُ: «ماذا تَقُولُونَ فِي القِصَّةِ التّالِيَةِ: كانَ لِرَجُلٍ ابنانِ. فَذَهَبَ إلَى الأوَّلِ وَقالَ لَهُ: ‹يا بُنَيَّ، اذْهَبِ اليَومَ وَاعْمَلْ فِي كَرمِي.›

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 « فَأجابَ الابْنُ: ‹لا أُرِيدُ الذَّهابَ.› وَلَكِنَّهُ غَيَّرَ مَوقِفَهُ وَذَهَبَ.

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

30 « ثُمَّ ذَهَبَ الأبُ إلَى ابْنِهِ الآخَرِ وَطَلَبَ مِنهُ الأمرَ ذاتَهُ. فَأجابَ الابْنُ: ‹نَعَمْ يا سَيِّدُ، سَأذهَبُ.› وَلَكِنَّهُ لَمْ يَذْهَبْ.

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

31 ف َأيُّ الابْنَينَ عَمِلَ ما أرادَهُ الأبُ؟» فَقالُوا: «الأوَّلُ.» فَقالَ لَهُمْ: «أقولُ الحَقَّ لَكُمْ، إنَّ جامِعِي الضَّرائِبَ وَالزَّوانِي سَيَسبِقُونَكُمْ إلَى مَلَكُوتِ اللهِ.

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 ل ِأنَّ يُوحَنّا المَعْمَدانَ جاءَ لِيُرِيَكُمْ طَريقَ الحَقِّ، وَأنتُمْ لَمْ تُؤْمِنُوا بِهِ، أمّا جامِعُوا الضَّرائِبِ وَالزَّوانِي فَآمَنُوا بِهِ. وَحَتَّى عِندَما رَأيتُمْ ما عَمِلُوهُ، لَمْ تَتُوبُوا وَتُؤْمِنُوا بِهِ. مَثَلُ ابنِ صاحِبِ الكَرم

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 « وَاسْتَمِعُوا إلَى مَثَلٍ آخَرَ: كانَ هُناكَ رَجُلٌ صاحِبُ أرْضٍ، فَغَرَسَ كَرماً وَأحاطَهُ بِسِياجٍ وَحَفَرَ فِيهِ مِعصَرَةً لِلعِنَبِ، وَبَنَى بُرجاً لِلحِراسَةِ. ثُمَّ أجَّرَهُ لِبَعضِ الفَلّاحِينَ وَسافَرَ بَعِيداً.

“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 و َعِندَما جاءَ وَقتُ قَطفِ العِنَبِ، أرسَلَ عَبِيدَهُ إلَى الفَلّاحِينَ لِلحُصُولِ عَلَى نَصِيبِهِ مِنَ العِنَبِ.

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

35 « وَلَكِنَّ الفَلّاحِينَ أمسَكُوا بِعَبِيدِهِ، وَضَرَبُوا واحِداً مِنْهُمْ، وَقَتَلُوا آخَرَ، وَرَجَمُوا آخَرَ.

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

36 ف َأرسَلَ المالِكُ عَبِيداً أكثَرَ مِمّا أرسَلَ فِي المَرَّةِ الأُولَى. فَعامَلَهُمُ الفَلّاحُونَ بِالطَّرِيقَةِ نَفسِها.

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

37 و َأخِيراً أرسَلَ ابْنَهُ، وَقالَ فِي نَفسِهِ: ‹سَيَحتَرِمُونَ ابْنِي.›

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

38 « وَلَكِنْ عِندَما رَأى الفَلّاحُونَ أنَّ هَذا هُوَ ابْنُ المالِكِ، تَشاوَرُوا فِيما بَينَهُمْ وَقالُوا: ‹هَذا هُوَ الوَرِيثُ، فَلنَقتُلْهُ لِكَي نَسْتولي عَلَى مِيراثِهِ.›

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 ف َقَبَضَوا عَلَيهِ وَألقَوهُ خارِجَ الكَرْمِ وَقَتَلُوهُ.

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

40 « فَماذا تَظُنُّونَ أنَّ صاحِبَ الكَرمِ سَيَصنَعُ بِأولَئِكَ الفَلّاحينَ عِنْدَما يَعُودُ؟»

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

41 ف َقالُوا لَهُ: «سَيَقضِي عَلَيهِمْ بِطَرِيقَةٍ رَهِيبَةٍ لِأنَّهُمْ أشرارٌ، ثُمَّ يُعطِي الكَرْمَ لِفَلّاحِينَ آخَرِينَ يُعطُونَهُ الثَّمَرَ فِي مَوسِمِ الثَّمَرِ.»

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 و َقالَ لَهُمْ يَسُوعُ: «ألَمْ تَقرَأوا المَكتوبَ: ‹الحَجَرُ الَّذِي رَفَضَهُ البَنّاؤُونَ، هُوَ الَّذِي صارَ حَجَرَ الأساسِ.› الرَّبُّ صَنَعَ هَذا، وَهُوَ أمْرٌ عَظيمٌ فِي عُيُونِنا›؟

Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?’

43 « لِذَلِكَ أقُولُ لَكُمْ: إنَّ مَلَكُوتَ اللهِ يُؤْخَذُ مِنْكُمْ، وَيُعطَى لِأُمَّةٍ تُنتِجُ ثَمَراً يُناسِبُ المَلَكُوتَ.

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

44 ف َكُلُّ مَنْ يَسقُطُ عَلَى هَذا الحَجَرِ يَتَكَسَّرُ، وَكُلُّ مَنْ وَقَعَ الحَجَرُ عَلَيهِ يُسحَقُ!»

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

45 و َعِندَما سَمِعَ كِبارُ الكَهَنَةِ وَالفِرِّيسِيُّونَ أمثالَ يَسُوعَ، عَرَفُوا أنَّهُ كانَ يَتَكَلَّمُ عَنْهُمْ.

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

46 ل ِذَلِكَ حاوَلُوا القَبْضَ عَلَيهِ، لَكِنَّهُمْ كانُوا خائِفِينَ مِنَ النّاسِ الَّذِينَ كانُوا يَعتَبِرُونَ يَسُوعَ نَبِيّاً.

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