Matthew 21:13

"It is written," He said, "`My House shall be called the House of Prayer', but you are making it a robbers' cave."

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

12Entering the Temple, Jesus drove out all who were buying and selling there, and overturned the money-changers' tables and the seats of the pigeon-dealers.

14And the blind and the lame came to Him in the Temple, and He cured them.

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Cross References

Matthew 2:5"At Bethlehem in Judaea," they replied; "for so it stands written in the words of the Prophet,

Luke 19:46"It is written," He said, "`And My house shall be the House of Prayer,' but you have made it a robbers' cave."

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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