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

¹² And Jesus went into the temple of God, and drove out all that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of those who sold doves, ¹³ and said to them: It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer; but you have made it a den of robbers.

¹⁴ And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he cured them. ¹⁵ But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of David, their anger was aroused, ¹⁶ and they said to him: Do you not hear what these say? And Jesus said to them: Yes; have you never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

¹⁷ And he left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and there spent the night.

¹⁵ And they came into Jerusalem; and Jesus entered the temple, and began to drive out those who sold, and those who bought in the temple; and he overturned the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of those who sold doves. ¹⁶ And he suffered no one to carry a vessel through the temple.

¹⁷ And he taught, saying to them: Is it not written, My house shall be called the house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of robbers. ¹⁸ And the scribes and the chief priests heard him; and they sought how they might destroy him; for they feared him, because all the multitude were astonished at his teaching.

¹⁹ And when evening had come, he went out of the city.

⁴⁵ And he went into the temple, and began to drive out those who were selling in it, and those who were buying, ⁴⁶ and said to them: It is written, My house is a house of prayer; but you have made it a den of robbers.

⁴⁷ And he was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests, and the scribes, and the chief of the people sought to destroy him, ⁴⁸ and found nothing that they could do, for all the people hung on his words.

¹⁴ And he found in the temple those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sit ting. ¹⁵ And when he had made a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also, and the oxen, and he poured out the money of the money-changers, and overthrew their tables; ¹⁶ and said to those who sold doves: Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.

¹⁷ And his disciples remembered that it was written, Zeal for thy house has eaten me up.

¹⁸ Then answered the Jews and said to him: What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?

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

²⁰ Then the Jews said to him: Forty and six years was this temple in building, and will you rebuild it in three days?

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