The Coming Messenger

Jesus Cleanses the Temple^(A)

^12 (B)Then Jesus went into the temple ^[a]of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the ^(C)money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. ¹³ And He said to them, “It is written, ^(D)‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ^(E)‘den of thieves.’ ”

¹⁴ Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them. ¹⁵ But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the ^(F)Son of David!” they were ^[b]indignant ¹⁶ and said to Him, “Do You hear what these are saying?”

And Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you never read,

Jesus Cleanses the Temple^(A)

^45 (B)Then He went into the temple and began to drive out those who ^[a]bought and sold in it, ⁴⁶ saying to them, “It is written, ^(C)‘My house ^[b]is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ^(D)‘den of thieves.’ ”

⁴⁷ And He ^(E)was teaching daily in the temple. But ^(F)the chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people sought to destroy Him,

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!”