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

¹² And Jesus went into the Temple and drove out all who were buying or selling things in it, and he upset the money-changers' tables and the pigeon-dealers' seats, ¹³ and he said to them, "The Scripture says, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you make it a robbers' cave."

¹⁴ And blind and lame people came up to him in the Temple, and he cured them. ¹⁵ But when the high priests and the scribes saw the wonders that he did and saw the boys shouting in the Temple, "God bless the Son of David!" they were indignant, ¹⁶ and said to him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'You have drawn praise from the mouths of children and infants'?"

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

¹⁵ When they reached Jerusalem, he went into the Temple, and began to drive out of it those who were buying or selling things in it, and he upset the money-changers' tables and the pigeon-dealers' seats, ¹⁶ and he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the Temple.

¹⁷ And he taught them, and said, "Does not the Scripture say, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a robbers' cave." ¹⁸ The high priests and the scribes heard of this, and they cast about for a way of destroying him, for they were afraid of him, for all the people were amazed at what he taught.

¹⁹ So when evening came, he and his disciples used to go out of the city.

⁴⁵ Then he went into the Temple and proceeded to drive out those who were selling things there, ⁴⁶ and he said to them, "The Scripture says, 'And my house shall be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!"

⁴⁷ Every day he taught in the Temple, and the high priests and scribes and the leading men of the people were trying to destroy him, ⁴⁸ but they could not find any way to do it, for all the people hung upon his words.

¹⁴ In the Temple he found the dealers in cattle, sheep, and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting at their tables. ¹⁵ And he made a lash out of rope, and drove them all, sheep and cattle, out of the Temple, and scattered the money-changers' coins on the ground, and overturned their tables. ¹⁶ And he said to the pigeon-dealers, "Take these things away! Do not turn my Father's house into a market!"

¹⁷ His disciples remembered that the Scriptures said, "My zeal for your house will consume me!"

¹⁸ Then the Jews addressed him and said, "What sign have you to show us, for acting in this way?"

¹⁹ Jesus answered, "Destroy this sanctuary, and I will raise it in three days!"

²⁰ The Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary, and are you going to raise it in three days?"

²¹ But he was speaking of his body as the sanctuary. ²² So afterward when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the passage of Scripture and what Jesus had said.