Cleansing the Temple Complex

12 Jesus went into the temple complex[a](A) and drove out all those buying and selling in the temple. He overturned the money changers’ tables and the chairs of those selling doves.(B) 13 And He said to them, “It is written, My house will be called a house of prayer.[b] But you are making it a den of thieves!”(C)[c]

Children Praise Jesus

14 The blind and the lame came to Him in the temple complex, and He healed them.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 21:12 Other mss add of God
  2. Matthew 21:13 Is 56:7
  3. Matthew 21:13 Jr 7:11

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