Cleansing the Temple

12 Jesus went into the temple[a](A) and threw out all those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.(B) 13 He said to them, “It is written, my house will be called a house of prayer,[b] but you are making it a den of thieves!”(C)[c]

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14 The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:12 Other mss add of God
  2. 21:13 Is 56:7
  3. 21:13 Jr 7:11

Jesus at the Temple(A)

12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying(B) and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers(C) and the benches of those selling doves.(D) 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’[a](E) but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’[b](F)

14 The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 21:13 Isaiah 56:7
  2. Matthew 21:13 Jer. 7:11