Matthew 21:16
"Do you hear," they asked Him, "what these children are saying?" "Yes," He replied; "have you never read, `Out of the mouths of infants and of babes at the breast Thou hast brought forth the praise which is due'?"
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
17So He left them and went out of the city to Bethany and passed the night there.
Cross References
Matthew 11:25About that time Jesus exclaimed, "I heartily praise Thee, Father, Lord of Heaven and of earth, that Thou hast hidden these things from sages and men of discernment, and hast unveiled them to babes.
Matthew 19:4"Have you not read," He replied, "that He who made them `made them' from the beginning `male and female,
Mark 2:25"Have you never read," Jesus replied, "what David did when the necessity arose and he and his men were hungry:
John 11:47Therefore the High Priests and the Pharisees held a meeting of the Sanhedrin. "What steps are we taking?" they asked one another; "for this man is performing a great number of miracles.
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 →