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Confrontation in the Temple over Money(A)

12 Then Jesus went into the Temple,[a] threw out everyone who was selling and buying in the Temple, and overturned the moneychangers’ tables and the chairs of those who sold doves. 13 He told them, “It is written, ‘My house is to be called a house of prayer,’[b] but you are turning it into a hideout[c] for bandits!”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 21:12 Other mss. read temple of God
  2. Matthew 21:13 Cf. Isa 56:7; Jer 7:11
  3. Matthew 21:13 Lit. cave

12 And kai Jesus Iēsous entered eiserchomai the ho temple hieron and kai drove ekballō out all pas who ho were selling pōleō and kai buying agorazō in en the ho temple hieron, and kai he overturned katastrephō the ho tables trapeza of the ho moneychangers kollybistēs and kai the ho chairs kathedra of those ho who were selling pōleō · ho doves peristera. 13 And kai he said legō to them autos, “ It stands written graphō, · ho My egō house oikos will be called kaleō a house oikos of prayer proseuchē,’ but de you hymeis are making poieō it autos a den spēlaion of thieves lēstēs.”

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