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[[@Bible:Matt 21]]Chapter 21

                        "Spread the word in the capital:

[[@Bible:Matt 21:6]]6. So the students left, and did exactly as Jesus bad told them. They brought the donkey and the mule, put their own coats on them, and Jesus jumped on. Many in the crowd made a carpet of their coats while other plaited twigs cut from trees and lined the road with them. Huge crowds of people, some going in front of him and some following him, were cheering loudly:

                        "Hurrah for our Leader!
                        Long Live the Lord’s Man!
                        Hurrah for God Almighty!"

            When he entered Atlanta, the whole city was all shook up. "Who is this guy?" they asked. And the crowd replied, "He is a man of God-Jesus, from Valdosta, Georgia."

[[@Bible:Matt 21:12]]12. Then Jesus went into First Church, pitched out the whole finance committee, tore up the investment and endowment records, and scrapped the long-range expansion plans. "My house shall be known for its commitment to God," he shouted, "but you have turned it into a religious racket!" And the blind people and the broken people gathered around him in the church, and he made them well. But when the district superintendents and the ministers saw the fantastic things he was doing, and the young people loudly cheering in the church, "Hurrah for our Leader," they blew their stacks. "Don’t you bear what these kids are screaming?" they growled. "Yes, indeed," Jesus exclaimed, "and haven’t you ever read that ‘I’ll weave a hymn of praise from the babblings of babies and the cries of kids’?" He walked away, left the city and spent the night in Jonesboro.

[[@Bible:Matt 21:18]]18. Upon returning to the city early next morning, he was hungry, so when he saw a lone peach tree beside the road, he went over to it. But he found that it had nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "You’ll never in this world bear fruit." And quick as a wink it wilted. This astounding sight stood the students on their ear. "How about that The peach tree wilted in a wink!" But Jesus told them, "Listen here, if you hold on to your faith and don’t chicken out, you’ll do not only the peach tree thing, but even if you tell this hill, ‘Get up and jump in the lake,’ it will happen; in fact, when you put your faith into action, you get anything you pray for."

[[@Bible:Matt 21:23]]23. Returning to the church, he was approached during a teaching session by some ministers and elders who asked, "What right do you have to do these things? Who gave you this permission?"
            Jesus replied, "All right, I’ll ask you just one question, and if you answer it, then I’ll tell you where I got permission to do these things. John’s baptism, was it divine or human?"
            They conferred with one another, saying, "If we tell him ‘divine,’ then he’ll ask us, ‘So why didn’t you accept it?’ If we say ‘human,’ we’re scared of John’s crowd, because they all regard him as a man of God." So they told Jesus, "We really don’t know.
            "Okay," he said, "then I won’t tell you where I got the authority for my actions. But give me a reading on this: A man had two boys. He went to the older one and said, ‘My boy, go work in the orchard today.’ He said, ‘Will do, Pop,’ but he never did. Then he went to the younger one and told him the same thing. But the boy said, ‘I won’t go.’ Afterwards he felt like a heel, and did go. Which of the two obeyed his father?"
            "Why, the last one," they said.
            "And I’m telling you the honest truth," Jesus said, "that the hippies and the whores are taking the lead over you into the God Movement. For John confronted you with the way of justice, and you didn’t buy it. But the hippies and the whores bought it, and you knew it. Even this, though, didn’t make you feel like a heel afterwards and go buy it yourselves.

[[@Bible:Matt 21:33]]33. "Listen to another Comparison, Once there was a farmer who set out a peach orchard, built a fence around it, bought some equipment, and put up a packing shed. Then he rented it to some sharecroppers and left. When peach-picking time came, he sent his workers to the croppers to get his share of the fruit. But the croppers took his workers and beat one of them, killed another, and stoned the other. So he tried again, this time sending more important workers than before, but the croppers treated them the same way. Finally he sent his son, thinking that surely they would respect him. But when the croppers saw the son they got together and said, ‘Hey, there’s the old man’s boy. Let’s kill this cat and take over his estate!’ So they grabbed him and dragged him out of the orchard and murdered him. Now, when the owner of the orchard comes, what will he do to those croppers?"