Hi, friends. Welcome to a very special week on the That Sounds Fun podcast. I'm your host,

Annie F. Downs, and I'm so happy to be here with you. As I told you yesterday, it is Holy Week,

the week between Palm Sunday and Easter. We will not be having normal shows on Mondays and

Thursdays this week, but every day, starting yesterday, up until Easter.

I'm going to read the stories from the Gospels.

That's Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John that coincide with this exact day.

Today is Monday, and I'm going to be reading to you from the English Standard Version.

We will start in Matthew,

and this is Matthew 21 versus 12 through 22. And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who

sold and bought in the temple. And he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those

who sold pigeons.

He said to them, it is written, my house shall be called a house of prayer, but you make it a den of robbers.

And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. But when the chief priests

and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did

and the children crying out in the temple, Hosanna to the son of David, they were indignant.

And they said to him, do you hear what these are saying? And Jesus said to them, yes, have you never

read out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies, you have prepared

praise? And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there. And in the morning,

as he was returning to the city, he became hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the wayside,

he went to it and found nothing on it but leaves.

And he said to it, may no fruit ever come from you again, and the fig tree withered at once.

When the disciples saw it, they marveled saying, how did the fig tree wither at once?

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