Matthew 21:12-17

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Jesus at the Temple^(A)

¹²Jesus 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)

¹⁴The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them.^(G) ¹⁵But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,”^(H) they were indignant.^(I)

¹⁶“Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him.

“Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read,

“‘From the lips of children and infants
you, Lord, have called forth your praise’^[c]?”^(J)

¹⁷And he left them and went out of the city to Bethany,^(K) where he spent the night.

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Footnotes

Matthew 21:13 Isaiah 56:7
Matthew 21:13 Jer. 7:11
Matthew 21:16 Psalm 8:2 (see Septuagint)

1 Kings 8:28-30

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²⁸Yet give attention to your servant’s prayer and his plea for mercy, Lord my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence this day. ²⁹May your eyes be open^(A) toward^(B) this temple night and day, this place of which you said, ‘My Name^(C) shall be there,’ so that you will hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place. ³⁰Hear the supplication of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray^(D) toward this place. Hear^(E) from heaven, your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.^(F)