Matthew 21:10-17
New American Standard Bible
10 When He had entered Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, “Who is this?” 11 And the crowds were saying, “This is (A)Jesus the prophet, from (B)Nazareth in Galilee.”
Cleansing the Temple
12 (C)And Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those who were selling and buying on the temple grounds, and He overturned the tables of the (D)money changers and the seats of those who were selling (E)doves. 13 And He *said to them, “It is written: ‘(F)My house will be called a house of prayer’; but you are making it a (G)den of robbers.”
14 And those who were blind and those who limped came to Him in the temple area, and (H)He healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that He had done, and the children who were shouting in the temple area, “[a]Hosanna to the (I)Son of David,” they became indignant, 16 and they said to Him, “Do You hear what these children are saying?” And Jesus *said to them, “Yes. Have you never read, ‘(J)From the mouths of infants and nursing babies You have prepared praise for Yourself’?” 17 And He left them and went out of the city to (K)Bethany, and spent the night there.
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- Matthew 21:15 Aramaic for Save, we pray
Matthew 21:10-17
New English Translation
10 As he entered Jerusalem the whole city was thrown into an uproar,[a] saying, “Who is this?” 11 And the crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth in Galilee.”
Cleansing the Temple
12 Then[b] Jesus entered the temple area[c] and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple courts,[d] and turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves. 13 And he said to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’[e] but you are turning it into a den[f] of robbers!”[g]
14 The blind and lame came to him in the temple courts, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the experts in the law[h] saw the wonderful things he did and heard the children crying out in the temple courts,[i] “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became indignant 16 and said to him, “Do you hear what they are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you never read, ‘Out of the mouths of children and nursing infants you have prepared praise for yourself’?”[j] 17 And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.
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- Matthew 21:10 tn Grk “was shaken.” The translation “thrown into an uproar” is given by L&N 25.233.
- Matthew 21:12 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
- Matthew 21:12 tn Grk “the temple.”sn The merchants (those who were selling) would have been located in the Court of the Gentiles.
- Matthew 21:12 tn Grk “the temple.”sn Matthew (here, 21:12-27), Mark (11:15-19) and Luke (19:45-46) record this incident of the temple cleansing at the end of Jesus’ ministry. John (2:13-16) records a cleansing of the temple at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry. See the note on the word temple courts in John 2:14 for a discussion of the relationship of these accounts to one another.
- Matthew 21:13 sn A quotation from Isa 56:7.
- Matthew 21:13 tn Or “a hideout” (see L&N 1.57).
- Matthew 21:13 sn A quotation from Jer 7:11. The meaning of Jesus’ statement about making the temple courts a den of robbers probably operates here at two levels. Not only were the religious leaders robbing the people financially, but because of this they had also robbed them spiritually by stealing from them the opportunity to come to know God genuinely. It is possible that these merchants had recently been moved to this location for convenience.
- Matthew 21:15 tn Or “and the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.
- Matthew 21:15 tn Grk “crying out in the temple [courts] and saying.” The participle λέγοντας (legontas) is somewhat redundant here in contemporary English and has not been translated.
- Matthew 21:16 sn A quotation from Ps 8:2.
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