Jesus Cleanses the Temple

^12 (A)And Jesus entered the temple^[a] and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of ^(B)the money-changers and the seats of those who sold ^(C)pigeons.

^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.” ¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it was written, ^(C)“Zeal for your house will consume me.”

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,

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

^15 (A)And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of ^(B)the money-changers and the seats of those who sold ^(C)pigeons. ¹⁶ And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. ¹⁷ And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ^(D)‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But ^(E)you have made it a den of robbers.” ¹⁸ And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and ^(F)were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because ^(G)all the crowd was astonished at his teaching.

¹⁴ “If his offering to the Lord is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall bring his offering of ^(A)turtledoves or pigeons.

⁷ “But ^(A)if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring to the Lord as his compensation for the sin that he has committed two ^(B)turtledoves or two pigeons,^[a] one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

²⁴ and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in ^(A)the Law of the Lord, ^(B)“a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.”

⁸ And if she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take ^(A)two turtledoves or two pigeons,^{[a] (B)}one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. ^(C)And the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.”

²⁴ And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the Lord your God blesses you, because ^(A)the place is too far from you, which the Lord your God chooses, to set his name there, ²⁵ then you shall turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the Lord your God chooses ²⁶ and spend the money for whatever you desire—oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And ^(B)you shall eat there before the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household.