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Jesus Cleanses The Temple And Accepts Praises From Boys. The Chief Priests Object

12 And Jesus entered into the temple. And He threw-out all the ones selling and buying in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money-changers[a] and the seats of the ones selling the doves[b]. 13 And He says to them, “It has been written [in Isa 56:7]: ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’. But you are making it a den of robbers[c]”. 14 And blind ones and lame ones came to Him in the temple, and He cured them.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 21:12 They changed foreign currency into Jewish currency for use in the temple.
  2. Matthew 21:12 That is, the doves used in the sacrifices commanded by God.
  3. Matthew 21:13 Or, plunderers, bandits.

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