Matthew 21:16

And they said to him: Hearest thou what these are saying? Jesus said to them: Yes. Have ye never read, Out of the mouth of children and infants

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

In Context

15And when the chief priests and Pharisees saw the wonderful things which he performed, and the children shouting in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the son of David, their indignation was excited.

17thou hast acquired praise? And he left them, and retired out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there.

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Cross References

Matthew 11:25At that time Jesus answered and said: I praise thee, O my Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and knowing, and hast revealed them to little children.

Matthew 19:4And he answered and said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made them at the beginning, made them a male and a female?

Mark 2:25Jesus said to them: Have ye never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he and his attendants?

John 11:47And the chief priests and Pharisees assembled together, and said: What shall we do? For this man worketh many signs.

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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