Jesus Drives Money Changers from the Temple

15 (A)Then they *came to Jerusalem. And He entered the temple area and began to drive out those who were selling and buying on the temple grounds, and He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling [a]doves; 16 and He would not allow anyone to carry [b]merchandise through the temple grounds. 17 And He began to teach and say to them, “Is it not written: ‘(B)My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? (C)But you have made it a den of robbers.” 18 And the chief priests and the scribes heard this, and they (D)began seeking how to put Him to death; for they were afraid of Him, because all (E)the crowd was astonished at His teaching.

19 And (F)whenever evening came, [c]they would leave the city.

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  1. Mark 11:15 Lit the doves
  2. Mark 11:16 Lit a vessel; i.e., a receptacle or implement of any kind
  3. Mark 11:19 I.e., Jesus and His disciples

15 And they come to Jerusalem: and he entered into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and them that bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold the doves; 16 and he would not suffer that any man should carry a vessel through the temple. 17 And he taught, and said unto them, Is it not written, [a]My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? [b]but ye have made it a den of robbers. 18 And the chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, for all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

19 And [c]every evening [d]he went forth out of the city.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 11:17 Isa. 56:7.
  2. Mark 11:17 Jer. 7:11.
  3. Mark 11:19 Greek whenever evening came.
  4. Mark 11:19 Some ancient authorities read they.