Matthew 21:16

and said to Him, “Do You hear what these children are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you never read, ‘ Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have perfected praise’?”

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

In Context

15But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonders which He did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became indignant,

17And having left them, He went out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there. 1 Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

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Cross References

Matthew 11:25At that time Jesus answered and said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to babes.

Matthew 19:4And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘ made them male and female,’

Mark 2:25But He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need, and became hungry, he and those with him?

John 11:47Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, “What are we doing? For this Man works many signs.

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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