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Matthew 21:16

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and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?”
Jesus said to them, “Yes. Did you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?’ ”

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Matthew 21:16 in other translations

and said unto him, Hearest thou what these are saying? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea: did ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

Matthew 21:16 · American Standard Version

Matthew 21:16 in context

  1. 14The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
  2. 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,
  3. 16and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?”
    Jesus said to them, “Yes. Did you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?’ ”
  4. 17He left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and camped there.
  5. 18Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.