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

¹² And Jesus came into the temple of God, and cast out all the buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money-exchangers, and the seats of those selling the doves; ¹³ and He says to them, It has been written, My house shall be called a house of prayer: but you make it a den of thieves.

¹⁴ And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple: and He healed them. ¹⁵ And the chief priests and scribes seeing the wonderful things which He did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying; Hosanna to the son of David, were indignant, ¹⁶ and said to Him, Do you hear what they are saying? And Jesus says to them, Yes: have you not read, That out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

¹⁷ And having left them, He went out of the city into Bethany, and there spent the night.

¹⁵ And they come into Jerusalem: and He having come into the temple, began to cast out the buyers and sellers in the temple, and He overturned the tables of the money-exchangers, and the seats of those selling doves; ¹⁶ and He did not suffer that any one should carry a vessel through the temple.

¹⁷ And He was teaching, saying to them, Is it not written, That my house shall be called a house of prayer for all the Gentiles? But you have made it a den of thieves. ¹⁸ And the scribes and high priests heard Him, seeking how they might destroy Him: for they feared Him, because all the multitude were delighted with His teaching.

¹⁹ And when it was evening, He departed out of the city.

⁴⁵ And having come into the temple, He began to cast out those buying and selling, ⁴⁶ saying to them; It has been written, My house shall be a house of prayer: but you have made it a den of thieves.

⁴⁷ And He was teaching daily in the temple, and the chief priests and scribes and the first men of the people were seeking to destroy Him. ⁴⁸ And they were not finding what they might do; for all the people hung on Him, hearing Him.

¹⁴ And He found in the temple those selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting: ¹⁵ and having made a scourge of cords, He cast all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the money of the exchangers, and over-turned the tables. ¹⁶ And He said to those selling doves; Take these things hence, make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.

¹⁷ And His disciples remembered that it is written, The zeal of thy house doth eat me up.

¹⁸ Then the Jews responded and said to Him, What sign do you show us, because you do these things?

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

²⁰ Then the Jews said, Forty and six years was this temple being built, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

²¹ But He spoke concerning the temple of His body. ²² Then when He arose from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said these things, and believed the Scripture and words which Jesus spoke.