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11 And the crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee”.

Jesus Cleanses The Temple And Accepts Praises From Boys. The Chief Priests Object

12 And Jesus entered into the temple. And He threw-out all the ones selling and buying in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money-changers[a] and the seats of the ones selling the doves[b]. 13 And He says to them, “It has been written [in Isa 56:7]: ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’. But you are making it a den of robbers[c]”.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 21:12 They changed foreign currency into Jewish currency for use in the temple.
  2. Matthew 21:12 That is, the doves used in the sacrifices commanded by God.
  3. Matthew 21:13 Or, plunderers, bandits.

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