17 He said to them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be called a house of prayer for all nations,’ but you have turned it into a den of thieves.”[a]

18 When the leading priests and teachers of religious law heard what Jesus had done, they began planning how to kill him. But they were afraid of him because the people were so amazed at his teaching.

19 That evening Jesus and the disciples left[b] the city.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:17 Isa 56:7; Jer 7:11.
  2. 11:19 Greek they left; other manuscripts read he left.

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