Job 24, Mark 11 - ESV Online

JOB 24

« Job 23 | Job 24 | Job 25 »

24:1

“Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty,

and why do those who know him never see his days? 2

Some move landmarks;

they seize flocks and pasture them. 3

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;

they take the widow’s ox for a pledge. 4

They thrust the poor off the road;

the poor of the earth all hide themselves. 5

Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert

the poor go out to their toil, seeking game;

the wasteland yields food for their children. 6

They gather their fodder in the field,

and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man. 7

They lie all night naked, without clothing,

and have no covering in the cold. 8

They are wet with the rain of the mountains

and cling to the rock for lack of shelter. 9

(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast,

and they take a pledge against the poor.) 10

They go about naked, without clothing;

hungry, they carry the sheaves; 11

among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil;

they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst. 12

From out of the city the dying groan,

and the soul of the wounded cries for help;

yet God charges no one with wrong.
13

“There are those who rebel against the light,

who are not acquainted with its ways,

and do not stay in its paths. 14

The murderer rises before it is light,

that he may kill the poor and needy,

and in the night he is like a thief. 15

The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight,

saying, ‘No eye will see me’;

and he veils his face. 16

In the dark they dig through houses;

by day they shut themselves up;

they do not know the light. 17

For deep darkness is morning to all of them;

for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
18

“You say, ‘Swift are they on the face of the waters;

their portion is cursed in the land;

no treader turns toward their vineyards. 19

Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters;

so does Sheol those who have sinned. 20

The womb forgets them;

the worm finds them sweet;

they are no longer remembered,

so wickedness is broken like a tree.’
21

“They wrong the barren, childless woman,

and do no good to the widow. 22

Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power;

they rise up when they despair of life. 23

He gives them security, and they are supported,

and his eyes are upon their ways. 24

They are exalted a little while, and then are gone;

they are brought low and gathered up like all others;

they are cut off like the heads of grain. 25

If it is not so, who will prove me a liar

and show that there is nothing in what I say?”

MARK 11

« Mark 10 | Mark 11 | Mark 12 »

The Triumphal Entry

11:1 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples 2 and said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. 3 If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.’” 4 And they went away and found a colt tied at a door outside in the street, and they untied it. 5 And some of those standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” 6 And they told them what Jesus had said, and they let them go. 7 And they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it, and he sat on it. 8 And many spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields. 9 And those who went before and those who followed were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! 10 Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!”
11 And he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. And when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve. Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

12 On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. 13 And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. 14 And he said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it. Jesus Cleanses the Temple

15 And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 16 And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. 17 And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.” 18 And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching. 19 And when evening came they went out of the city. The Lesson from the Withered Fig Tree

20 As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots. 21 And Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.” 22 And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. 23 Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. 24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. 25 And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.” The Authority of Jesus Challenged

27 And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him, 28 and they said to him, “By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?” 29 Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question; answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. 30 Was the baptism of John from heaven or from man? Answer me.” 31 And they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’ 32 But shall we say, ‘From man’?”—they were afraid of the people, for they all held that John really was a prophet. 33 So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”