¹⁰ And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, ^(A)a cloud filled the house of the Lord,

³ And the Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, ^(A)by putting my name there forever. ^(B)My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

¹⁷ You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or ^(A)the temple that has made the gold sacred?

^14 (A)In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. ¹⁵ And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. ¹⁶ And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make ^(B)my Father's house a house of trade.”