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Matthew 21:13

World English Bible

He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”

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Matthew 21:13 in other translations

and he saith unto them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer: but ye make it a den of robbers.

Matthew 21:13 · American Standard Version

Matthew 21:13 in context

  1. 11The multitudes said, “This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”
  2. 12Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.
  3. 13He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”
  4. 14The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
  5. 15But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were indignant,