Mark 11:17

And He was teaching, saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘ My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a ‘ den of thieves!’ ”

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.

In Context

16And He would not permit anyone to carry a vessel through the temple.

18And the scribes and chief priests heard it and they sought how they might destroy Him; for they were afraid of Him, because all the people were astonished at His teaching.

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Cross References

Luke 19:46saying to them, “It is written, ‘ My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘ den of thieves.’ ”

Matthew Henry on Mark 11:13-27

The Barren Fig-Tree Cursed. 12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: 13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. 14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it. 15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the… Read the whole commentary →

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