Mark 11:17
He explained to them, “Doesn't Scripture say, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have turned it into a den of thieves!”
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16He stopped anyone carrying things through the Temple.
Cross References
Isaiah 56:7I will bring these foreigners to my holy mountain and make them happy in my house of prayer. I will accept their burnt offerings and sacrifices, because my Temple will be called a house of prayer for all nations.
Jeremiah 7:11Do you see this house, my own Temple, as a den of thieves? Well, that's what it looks like to me too, declares the Lord.
Luke 19:46He told them, “Scriptures state that my house will be a house of prayer, but you've turned it into 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 →