13 And He *said to them, “It is written: ‘(A)My house will be called a house of prayer’; but you are making it a (B)den of robbers.”

14 And those who were blind and those who limped came to Him in the temple area, and (C)He healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that He had done, and the children who were shouting in the temple area, “[a]Hosanna to the (D)Son of David,” they became indignant, 16 and they said to Him, “Do You hear what these children are saying?” And Jesus *said to them, “Yes. Have you never read, ‘(E)From the mouths of infants and nursing babies You have prepared praise for Yourself’?”

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  1. Matthew 21:15 Aramaic for Save, we pray

13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’[a](A) but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’[b](B)

14 The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them.(C) 15 But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,”(D) they were indignant.(E)

16 “Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him.

“Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read,

“‘From the lips of children and infants
    you, Lord, have called forth your praise’[c]?”(F)

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  1. Matthew 21:13 Isaiah 56:7
  2. Matthew 21:13 Jer. 7:11
  3. Matthew 21:16 Psalm 8:2 (see Septuagint)