Jesus Cleanses the Temple

45 (A)And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, 46 saying to them, “It is written, (B)‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but (C)you have made it a den of robbers.”

47 (D)And he was teaching daily in the temple. (E)The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, 48 but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.

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The Cleansing of the Temple

45 And he entered into the temple courts[a] and[b] began to drive out those who were selling, 46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘And my house will be a house of prayer,’[c] but you have made it a cave of robbers!”

47 And he was teaching every day in the temple courts,[d] and the chief priests and the scribes and the most prominent men of the people were seeking to destroy him. 48 And they did not find anything they could do, because all the people were paying close attention to what they were hearing from him.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 19:45 Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
  2. Luke 19:45 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“entered”) has been translated as a finite verb
  3. Luke 19:46 A quotation from Isa 56:7
  4. Luke 19:47 *Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself