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# Mark 11

Mark 11 is chapter 11 of 16 in the Gospel of Mark. Here are all 33 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Christ enters into Jerusalem upon an ass. He curses the barren fig tree and drives the buyers and sellers out of the temple.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Mark 11 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And as they were approaching Jerusalem and Bethania, toward the mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
2. and he said to them: “Go into the village that is opposite you, and immediately upon entering there, you will find a colt tied, on which no man has yet sat. Release him and bring him.
3. And if anyone will say to you: ‘What are you doing?’ Say that the Lord has need of him. And he will immediately send him here.”
4. And going out, they found the colt tied before the outer gate, at the meeting of two ways. And they untied him.
5. And some of those who were standing there said to them, “What are you doing by releasing the colt?”
6. And they spoke to them just as Jesus had instructed them. And they permitted them.
7. And they led the colt to Jesus. And they placed their garments on it; and he sat upon it.
8. Then many spread their garments along the way; but others cut down leafy branches from trees and scattered them on the way.
9. And those who went ahead, and those who followed, cried out saying: “Hosanna! Blessed is he who has arrived in the name of the Lord.
10. Blessed is the advent of the kingdom of our father David. Hosanna in the highest!”
11. And he entered into Jerusalem, into the temple. And having looked around at everything, since it was now the evening hour, he went out to Bethania with the twelve.
12. And the next day, as they were departing from Bethania, he was hungry.
13. And when he had seen a fig tree with leaves in the distance, he went to it, in case he might find something on it. And when he had gone to it, he found nothing but leaves. For it was not the season for figs.
14. And in response, he said to it, “From now on and forever, may no one eat fruit from you again!” And his disciples heard this.
15. And they went to Jerusalem. And when he had entered into the temple, he began to cast out the sellers and the buyers in the temple. And he overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the chairs of the vendors of doves.
16. And he would not permit anyone to carry goods through the temple.
17. And he taught them, saying: “Is it not written: ‘For my house shall be called the house of prayer for all nations?’ But you have made it into a den of robbers.”
18. And when the leaders of the priests, and the scribes, had heard this, they sought a means by which they might destroy him. For they feared him, because the entire multitude was in admiration over his doctrine.
19. And when evening had arrived, he departed from the city.
20. And when they passed by in the morning, they saw that the fig tree had dried up from the roots.
21. And Peter, remembering, said to him, “Master, behold, the fig tree that you cursed has withered.”
22. And in response, Jesus said to them: “Have the faith of God.
23. Amen I say to you, that whoever will say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and who will not have hesitated in his heart, but will have believed: then whatever he has said be done, it shall be done for him.
24. For this reason, I say to you, all things whatsoever that you ask for when praying: believe that you will receive them, and they will happen for you.
25. And when you stand to pray, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your sins.
26. But if you will not forgive, neither will your Father, who is in heaven, forgive you your sins.”
27. And they went again to Jerusalem. And when he was walking in the temple, the leaders of the priests, and the scribes, and the elders approached him.
28. And they said to him: “By what authority do you do these things? And who has given you this authority, so that you would do these things?”
29. But in response, Jesus said to them: “I also will ask you one word, and if you answer me, I will tell you by what authority I do these things.
30. The baptism of John: was it from heaven or from men? Answer me.”
31. But they discussed it among themselves, saying: “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’
32. If we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the people. For they all hold that John was a true prophet.”
33. And answering, they said to Jesus, “We do not know.” And in response, Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

## Mark 11 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Et cum appropinquarent Jerosolymæ et Bethaniæ ad montem Olivarum, mittit duos ex discipulis suis,
2. et ait illis: Ite in castellum, quod contra vos est, et statim introëuntes illuc, invenietis pullum ligatum, super quem nemo adhuc hominum sedit: solvite illum, et adducite.
3. Et si quis vobis dixerit: Quid facitis? dicite, quia Domino necessarius est: et continuo illum dimittet huc.
4. Et abeuntes invenerunt pullum ligatum ante januam foris in bivio: et solvunt eum.
5. Et quidam de illic stantibus dicebant illis: Quid facitis solventes pullum?
6. Qui dixerunt eis sicut præceperat illis Jesus, et dimiserunt eis.
7. Et duxerunt pullum ad Jesum: et imponunt illi vestimenta sua, et sedit super eum.
8. Multi autem vestimenta sua straverunt in via: alii autem frondes cædebant de arboribus, et sternebant in via.
9. Et qui præibant, et qui sequebantur, clamabant, dicentes: Hosanna: benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini:
10. benedictum quod venit regnum patris nostri David: hosanna in excelsis.
11. Et introivit Jerosolymam in templum: et circumspectis omnibus, cum jam vespera esset hora, exiit in Bethaniam cum duodecim.
12. Et alia die cum exirent a Bethania, esuriit.
13. Cumque vidisset a longe ficum habentem folia, venit si quid forte inveniret in ea: et cum venisset ad eam, nihil invenit præter folia: non enim erat tempus ficorum.
14. Et respondens dixit ei: Jam non amplius in æternum ex te fructum quisquam manducet. Et audiebant discipuli ejus.
15. Et veniunt in Jerosolymam. Et cum introisset in templum, cœpit ejicere vendentes et ementes in templo: et mensas numulariorum, et cathedras vendentium columbas evertit:
16. et non sinebat ut quisquam transferret vas per templum:
17. et docebat, dicens eis: Nonne scriptum est: Quia domus mea, domus orationis vocabitur omnibus gentibus? vos autem fecistis eam speluncam latronum.
18. Quo audito principes sacerdotum et scribæ, quærebant quomodo eum perderent: timebant enim eum, quoniam universa turba admirabatur super doctrina ejus.
19. Et cum vespera facta esset, egrediebatur de civitate.
20. Et cum mane transirent, viderunt ficum aridam factam a radicibus.
21. Et recordatus Petrus, dixit ei: Rabbi, ecce ficus, cui maledixisti, aruit.
22. Et respondens Jesus ait illis: Habete fidem Dei.
23. Amen dico vobis, quia quicumque dixerit huic monti: Tollere, et mittere in mare, et non hæsitaverit in corde suo, sed crediderit, quia quodcumque dixerit fiat, fiet ei.
24. Propterea dico vobis, omnia quæcumque orantes petitis, credite quia accipietis, et evenient vobis.
25. Et cum stabitis ad orandum, dimittite si quid habetis adversus aliquem: ut et Pater vester, qui in cælis est, dimittat vobis peccata vestra.
26. Quod si vos non dimiseritis: nec Pater vester, qui in cælis est, dimittet vobis peccata vestra.
27. Et veniunt rursus Jerosolymam. Et cum ambularet in templo, accedunt ad eum summi sacerdotes, et scribæ, et seniores:
28. et dicunt ei: In qua potestate hæc facis? et quis dedit tibi hanc potestatem ut ista facias?
29. Jesus autem respondens, ait illis: Interrogabo vos et ego unum verbum, et respondete mihi: et dicam vobis in qua potestate hæc faciam.
30. Baptismus Joannis, de cælo erat, an ex hominibus? Respondete mihi.
31. At illi cogitabant secum, dicentes: Si dixerimus: De cælo, dicet: Quare ergo non credidistis ei?
32. Si dixerimus: Ex hominibus, timemus populum: omnes enim habebant Joannem quia vere propheta esset.
33. Et respondentes dicunt Jesu: Nescimus. Et respondens Jesus ait illis: Neque ego dico vobis in qua potestate hæc faciam.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 2610: In the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2841: "And Forgive Us Our Trespasses, as We Forgive Those Who Trespass AGAINST US" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sun, Nov 22, 2026: The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe — Alleluia, Mark 11:9, 10
- Sun, Mar 21, 2027: Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion — Gospel at the Procession, Mark 11:1-10
- Fri, May 28, 2027: Friday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time — Gospel, Mark 11:11-26
- Sat, May 29, 2027: Saturday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time — Gospel, Mark 11:27-33

2 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option).

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).