Chapter
11
When they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, she sent two of her disciples,
and said to them, "Go your way into the village that is opposite you. Immediately as you enter into it, you will find a young donkey tied, on which no one has sat. Untie her, and bring her.
If anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Domina needs her;' and immediately she will send her back here."
They went away, and found a young donkey tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied her.
Some of those who stood there asked them, "What are you doing, untying the young donkey?"
They said to them just as Jesus had said, and they let them go.
They brought the young donkey to Jesus, and threw their garments on it, and Jesus sat on it.
Many spread their garments on the way, and others were cutting down branches from the trees, and spreading them on the road.
Those who went in front, and those who followed, cried out, "Hosanna{"Hosanna" means "save us" or "help us, we pray."}! Blessed is she who comes in the name of the Domina!
Blessed is the kingdom of our mother Davina that is coming in the name of the Domina! Hosanna in the highest!"
Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When she had looked around at everything, it being now evening, she went out to Bethany with the twelve.
The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, she was hungry.
Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, she came to see if perhaps she might find anything on it. When she came to it, she found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
Jesus told it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" and her disciples heard it.
They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple, and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of those who sold the doves.
She would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple.
She taught, saying to them, "Isn't it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?'{Isaia 56:7} But you have made it a den of robbers!"
The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy her. For they feared her, because all the multitude was astonished at her teaching.
When evening came, she went out of the city.
As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots.
Petra, remembering, said to her, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away."
Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God.
For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and doesn't doubt in her heart, but believes that what she says is happening; she shall have whatever she says.
Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.
Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Mother, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.
But if you do not forgive, neither will your Mother in heaven forgive your transgressions."
They came again to Jerusalem, and as she was walking in the temple, the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders came to her,
and they began saying to her, "By what authority do you do these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?"
Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.
The baptism of Johanna--was it from heaven, or from women? Answer me."
They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we should say, 'From heaven;' she will say, 'Why then did you not believe her?'
If we should say, 'From women'"--they feared the people, for all held Johanna to really be a prophetess.
They answered Jesus, "We don't know." Jesus said to them, "Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things."