Matthew 21:12-17 - The Cleansing Of The Temple

¹² And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and cast out all those who sold and bought in the temple. And he overturned the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of those who sold the doves. ¹³ And he says to them, It is written, My house will be called a house of prayer, but ye made it a den of robbers.

¹⁴ And the lame and the blind came to him in the temple, and he healed them. ¹⁵ But when the chief priests and the scholars saw the wonderful things that he did, and the boys crying out in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the son of David, they were indignant, ¹⁶ and said to him, Do thou hear what these are saying? And Jesus says to them, Yes! Did ye never read, Out of the mouth of children and those who suckle thou have perfected praise?

¹⁷ And having left them behind, he went out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there.

¹⁵ And they come to Jerusalem. And having entered into the temple, Jesus began to drive out those who sold and bought in the temple. And he overturned the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of those who sold the doves. ¹⁶ And he did not permit that any man might carry a container through the temple.

¹⁷ And he taught, saying to them, Is it not written, My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations? But ye made it a den of robbers. ¹⁸ And the scholars and the chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him, for they feared him, because all the people were awed at his doctrine.

¹⁹ And when it became evening he went forth outside of the city.

⁴⁵ And having entered into the temple, he began to cast out those selling and buying in it, ⁴⁶ saying to them, It is written, My house is a house of prayer, but ye made it a den of robbers.

⁴⁷ And he was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests, and the scholars sought to destroy him, even the foremost men of the people. ⁴⁸ And they did not find what they might do, for the people all hung upon him, listening.

¹⁴ And he found sitting in the temple those who sell oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers. ¹⁵ And having made a whip from cords, he drove all out from the temple, both the sheep and the oxen. And he poured out the coins of the moneychangers, and turned over their tables. ¹⁶ And he said to those who sell the doves, Take these things from here. Make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.

¹⁷ And his disciples remembered that it is written, Zeal for thy house will consume me.

¹⁸ The Jews therefore answered, and said to him, What sign do thou show us since thou do these things?

¹⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

²⁰ The Jews therefore said, This temple was forty-six years being built, and will thou raise it up in three days?

²¹ But that man spoke about the temple of his body. ²² When therefore he was raised from the dead his disciples remembered that he spoke this, and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus said.