Matthew 21:9-17

Complete Jewish Bible

⁹ The crowds ahead of him and behind shouted,

to the Son of David;

¹⁰ When he entered Yerushalayim, the whole city was stirred. “Who is this?” they asked. ¹¹ And the crowds answered, “This is Yeshua, the prophet from Natzeret in the Galil.”

¹² Yeshua entered the Temple grounds and drove out those who were doing business there, both the merchants and their customers. He upset the desks of the money-changers and knocked over the benches of those who were selling pigeons. ¹³ He said to them, “It has been written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’^[d] But you are making it into a den of robbers!”^[e]

¹⁴ Blind and lame people came up to him in the Temple, and he healed them. ¹⁵ But when the head cohanim and Torah-teachers saw the wonderful things he was doing, and the children crying out in the Temple, “Please deliver us!”^[f] to the Son of David, they were furious. ¹⁶ They said to him, “Do you hear what they’re saying?” Yeshua replied, “Of course! Haven’t you ever read,

¹⁷ With that, he left them and went outside the city to Beit-Anyah, where he spent the night.