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13 (A)And he said to them, “It is written:

‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’[a]
    but you are making it a den of thieves.”

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Footnotes

  1. 21:13 ‘My house…prayer’: cf. Is 56:7. Matthew omits the final words of the quotation, “for all peoples” (“all nations”), possibly because for him the worship of the God of Israel by all nations belongs to the time after the resurrection; see Mt 28:19. A den of thieves: the phrase is taken from Jer 7:11.