¹⁰ When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place, the cloud^(A) filled the temple of the Lord.

³ The Lord said to him:

¹⁷ You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred?^(A)

¹⁴ In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves,^(A) and others sitting at tables exchanging money.^{(B) 15} So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. ¹⁶ To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house^(C) into a market!”