Matthew 21:13
He told them, “Scripture says, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you've turned it into a den of thieves.”
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14The blind and the lame came to Jesus in the Temple, and he healed them.
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.
Matthew 2:5“Bethlehem in Judea,” they told him, “for that's what the prophet wrote:
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 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 →