11 And the crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee!”

The Cleansing of the Temple

12 And Jesus entered the temple courts[a] and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who were selling doves. 13 And he said to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’[b] but you have made it a cave of robbers!”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 21:12 Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
  2. Matthew 21:13 A quotation from Isa 56:7