Matthew 21:12-17
Evangelical Heritage Version
Jesus Cleanses His Father’s House
12 Jesus entered the temple courts[a] and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. 13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’[b] but you are making it a den of robbers!”[c]
14 The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the experts in the law saw the wonders he performed and heard the children calling out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant. 16 They said to him, “Do you hear what they are saying?”
“Yes,” Jesus told them, “Have you never read,
From the lips of little children and nursing babies
you have prepared praise?”[d]
17 He left them, went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.
Footnotes
- Matthew 21:12 Some witnesses to the text add of God.
- Matthew 21:13 Isaiah 56:7
- Matthew 21:13 Jeremiah 7:11
- Matthew 21:16 Psalm 8:2
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