⁴⁶ saying to them, “It is written, ^(A)‘My house ^[a]is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ^(B)‘den of thieves.’ ”

¹¹ Has ^(A)this house, which is called by My name, become a ^(B)den of thieves in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” says the Lord.

¹³ “But ^(A)woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

¹² This is the law of the ^[a]temple: The whole area surrounding ^(A)the mountaintop is most holy. Behold, this is the law of the temple.