The Cleansing of the Temple

12 And Jesus entered the temple courts[a] and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who were selling doves. 13 And he said to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’[b] but you have made it a cave of robbers!”

14 And the blind and the lame came up to him in the temple courts[c] and he healed them.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 21:12 Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
  2. Matthew 21:13 A quotation from Isa 56:7
  3. Matthew 21:14 Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself