10 And when[a] he entered into Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?” 11 And the crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee!”

The Cleansing of the Temple

12 And Jesus entered the temple courts[b] and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who were selling doves.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 21:10 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“entered”)
  2. Matthew 21:12 Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself