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<p class="tab-1">The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ are the two main hinges upon which the door of salvation turns. He came into the world on purpose to give his life a ransom; so he had lately said, <a class="bibleref" title="Matt.20.28" href="/passage/?search=Matt.20.28">Matt. 20:28</a>. And therefore the history of his sufferings, even unto death, and his rising again, is more particularly recorded by all the evangelists than any other part of his story; and to that this evangelist now hastens apace. For at this chapter begins that which is called the passion-week. He had said to his disciples more than once, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and there the Son of man must be betrayed. A great deal of good work he did by the way, and now at length he is come up to Jerusalem; and here we have, I. The public entry which he made into Jerusalem, upon the first day of the passion-week, <a class="bibleref" title="Matt.21.1-Matt.21.11" href="/passage/?search=Matt.21.1-Matt.21.11">Matt. 21:1-11</a>. II. The authority he exercised there, in cleansing the temple, and driving out of it the buyers and sellers, <a class="bibleref" title="Matt.21.12-Matt.21.16" href="/passage/?search=Matt.21.12-Matt.21.16">Matt. 21:12-16</a>. III. The barren fig-tree, and his discourse with his disciples thereupon, <a class="bibleref" title="Matt.21.17-Matt.21.22" href="/passage/?search=Matt.21.17-Matt.21.22">Matt. 21:17-22</a>. IV. His justifying his own authority, by appealing to the baptism of John, <a class="bibleref" title="Matt.21.23-Matt.21.27" href="/passage/?search=Matt.21.23-Matt.21.27">Matt. 21:23-27</a>. V. His shaming the infidelity and obstinacy of the chief priests and elders, with the repentance of the publicans, illustrated by the parable of the two sons, <a class="bibleref" title="Matt.21.29-Matt.21.32" href="/passage/?search=Matt.21.29-Matt.21.32">Matt. 21:29-32</a>. VI. His reading the doom of the Jewish church for its unfruitfulness, in the parable of the vineyard let out to unthankful husbandmen, <a class="bibleref" title="Matt.21.33-Matt.21.46" href="/passage/?search=Matt.21.33-Matt.21.46">Matt. 21:33-46</a>.</p>
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