⁸ And it grieved me bitterly; therefore I threw all the household goods of Tobiah out of the room.

Jesus Cleanses the Temple^(A)

^13 (B)Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ^14 (C)And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers ^[a]doing business. ¹⁵ When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables. ¹⁶ And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make ^(D)My Father’s house a house of merchandise!” ¹⁷ Then His disciples remembered that it was written, ^(E)“Zeal for Your house ^[b]has eaten Me up.”

Jesus Cleanses the Temple^(A)

^15 (B)So they came to Jerusalem. Then Jesus went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold ^(C)doves. ¹⁶ And He would not allow anyone to carry wares through the temple. ¹⁷ Then He taught, saying to them, “Is it not written, ^(D)‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a ^(E)‘den of thieves.’ ”

Confession of Improper Marriages

10 Now ^(A)while Ezra was praying, and while he was confessing, weeping, and bowing down ^(B)before the house of God, a very large assembly of men, women, and children gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept very ^(C)bitterly.

³ So when I heard this thing, ^(A)I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked out some of the hair of my head and beard, and sat down ^(B)astonished. ⁴ Then everyone who ^(C)trembled at the words of the God of Israel assembled to me, because of the transgression of those who had been carried away captive, and I sat astonished until the ^(D)evening sacrifice.