Matthew 21:13

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

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

In Context

12Then Jesus went into the temple of God and He cast out all those buying and selling in the temple, and He overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those selling doves.

14Then the lame and the blind came to Him in the temple, and He healed them.

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Cross References

Matthew 2:5So they said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet: 1

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 Matthew 21:13-18

The Profaners of the Temple Punished. 12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, 13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. 14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. 15 And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the… Read the whole commentary →

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