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

¹² And Jesus entered into the temple, and cast out all who were selling and buying in the temple, - and, the tables of the money-changers, he overthrew, and the seats of them who were selling doves; ¹³ and saith unto them - It is written, My house, a house of prayer, shall be called; but, ye, are making it, A den of robbers!

¹⁴ And there came unto him blind and lame, in the temple, and he cured them. ¹⁵ But the Chief-priests and the Scribes, seeing, the marvels that he wrought, and the boys who were crying aloud in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David! were greatly displeased; ¹⁶ and said unto him - Hearest thou what these are saying? And, Jesus, saith unto them - Yea: Have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings, hast thou prepared praise?

¹⁷ And, leaving them behind, he went forth outside the city into Bethany, and spent the night there.

¹⁵ And they come into Jerusalem. And, entering into the temple, he began to be casting out them who were selling and them who were buying in the temple, and, the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them who were selling doves, he overthrew, - ¹⁶ and was not suffering that anyone should carry a vessel through the temple;

¹⁷ and was teaching, and saying - Is it not written, My house, a house of prayer, shall be called, for all the nations? but, ye, have made it, A den of robbers. ¹⁸ And the High-priests and the Scribes, heard, it, and began seeking how they might, destroy, him, - for they were fearing him; for, all the multitude, were being struck with astonishment at his teaching.

¹⁹ And, as soon as it became late, they were going forth outside the city.

⁴⁵ And, entering into the temple, he began to be casting out them who were selling; ⁴⁶ saying unto them - It is written, And, my house, shall be, a house of prayer; but, ye, have made, it, a den of robbers.

⁴⁷ And he was teaching day by day in the temple; but, the High-priests and the Scribes, also the chiefs of the people, were seeking to destroy him, - ⁴⁸ and could not find what they might do, for, the people, one and all, were hanging upon him, as they hearkened.

¹⁴ And he found, in the temple, them that were selling oxen and sheep and doves, also the money-changers sitting. ¹⁵ And, making a scourge out of rushes, all of them, thrust he forth out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and, the money-changers' small coins, poured he forth, and, the tables, he overturned; ¹⁶ and unto them who were selling, the doves, he said - Take these things hence! Be not making, the house of my Father, a house of merchandise.

¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it was written - The zeal of thy house, eateth me up.

¹⁸ The Jews therefore answered, and said unto him, What sign, dost thou point out to us, in that, these things, thou doest?

¹⁹ Jesus answered, and said unto them - Take down this shrine, and, in three days, will I raise it.

²⁰ The Jews, therefore, said - In forty and six years, was this shrine built. And, thou, in three days, wilt raise it!

²¹ But, he, was speaking concerning the shrine of his body. ²² When, therefore, he had been raised from among the dead, his disciples remembered, that, this, he had been saying; and they believed in the Scripture, and in the word which Jesus had spoken.