17 And he began to teach[a] and was saying to them, “Is it not written,

‘My house will be called a house of prayer
    for all the nations,’[b]

but you have made it a cave of robbers!” 18 And the chief priests and the scribes heard it,[c] and began considering[d] how they could destroy him. For they were afraid of him because the whole crowd was astounded by his teaching. 19 And when evening came they went out of the city.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 11:17 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to teach”)
  2. Mark 11:17 A quotation from Isa 56:7
  3. Mark 11:18 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  4. Mark 11:18 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began considering”)