Luke 19:46

saying to them; It has been written, My house shall be a house of prayer: but you have made it a den of thieves.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.

In Context

45And having come into the temple, He began to cast out those buying and selling,

47And He was teaching daily in the temple, and the chief priests and scribes and the first men of the people were seeking to destroy Him.

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Matthew Henry on Luke 19:42-48

The Doom of Jerusalem Lamented; The Doom of Jerusalem Foretold. 41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. 43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, 44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not… Read the whole commentary →

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