Matthew 21:12-13
New Living Translation
Jesus Clears the Temple
12 Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out all the people buying and selling animals for sacrifice. He knocked over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves. 13 He said to them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be called a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of thieves!”[a]
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Matthew 21:12-13
International Standard Version
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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- Matthew 21:12 Other mss. read temple of God
- Matthew 21:13 Cf. Isa 56:7; Jer 7:11
- Matthew 21:13 Lit. cave
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