Mark 11:17
And he was teaching torah and he was saying to them, Has it not been written, BEITI BEIT TEFILLAH YIKAREI LKHOL HAAMMIM (My House shall be called a House of Prayer [for] all peoples), but you have made it a MEARAT PARITZIM (den of robbers). + 11:17 Isa 56:7; Jer 7:11
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
16And he was not allowing anyone to carry things through the Beis HaMikdash.
Cross References
Isaiah 56:7Even them will I bring to My Har Kodesh, 1 and make them have simcha in My Bais Tefillah; 1 their olot and their zevakhim 1 shall be accepted upon Mine Mizbe'ach; 1 for Mine Bais shall be called 1 Bais Tefillah l'khol HaAmim (House of Prayer for All Nations). 1
Jeremiah 7:11Is HaBeis Hazeh, which is called by Shmi, become a me'arah paritzim (a cave, a den of robbers, criminals) in your eyes? Hinei, even I have been watching, saith Hashem.
Luke 19:46Saying to them, It has been written, BEITI BEIT TEFILLAH YIKAREI, + 19:46 Isa 56:7 but you made it a MEARAT PARITZIM. + 19:46 Jer 7:11
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 →