Matthew 21:13

and said unto them, It is written, “My house shall be called a house of prayer,” but ye have made it a den of robbers.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

12And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and cast out all those who sold and bought in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of those who sold doves

14Then the blind and the lame came unto him, into the temple, and he cured them.

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Cross References

Matthew 2:5Then they answered him, In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet,

Luke 19:46saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of robbers.

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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