Mark 11:15-19

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Cleansing the Temple Complex

¹⁵ They came to Jerusalem,^(A) and He went into the temple complex^(B) and began to throw out those buying and selling in the temple. He overturned the money changers’^(C) tables and the chairs of those selling doves, ¹⁶ and would not permit anyone to carry goods through the temple complex.

¹⁷ Then He began to teach them: “Is it not written,^(D) My house^(E) will be called a house of prayer^(F) for all nations?^[a] But you have made it a den of thieves!”^{(G)[b] 18} Then the chief priests and the scribes^(H) heard it and started looking for a way to destroy Him. For they were afraid^(I) of Him, because the whole crowd was astonished by His teaching.

¹⁹ And whenever evening came, they would go out of the city.