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 overturned the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of those who sold doves ¹³ and said unto them, It is written, "My house shall be called a house of prayer," but ye have made it a den of robbers.

¹⁴ Then the blind and the lame came unto him, into the temple, and he cured them. ¹⁵ But when the chief priests and scribes saw the marvellous acts which he did, and the children crying out in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of David; they were filled with indignation; ¹⁶ and said to him, Hearest thou what these say? Jesus replied to them, Yes; but have ye never read, "That out of the mouths of infants and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?"

¹⁷ And turning his back upon them, he went out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there.

¹⁵ And they came to Jerusalem and Jesus entered into the temple, and began to cast out those who sold and bought in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of those who sold doves; ¹⁶ and would not suffer that any person should carry a vessel through the temple.

¹⁷ And he taught them, saying, Is it not written, that "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations?" but ye have made it a den of thieves. ¹⁸ And the scribes and chief priests heard him, and sought how they might destroy him: for they were afraid of him, because all the people were exceedingly struck with his teaching,

¹⁹ And when the evening came, he went away out of the city.

⁴⁵ And entering into the temple, he began to cast out those who sold and bought in the temple; ⁴⁶ saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of robbers.

⁴⁷ And he continued daily teaching in the temple. Then the chief priests and the scribes sought to destroy him, with the heads of the people, ⁴⁸ but did not discover how they could do any thing: for all the people attentively hung on his lips.

¹⁴ And he found in the temple those who sold oxen, and sheep, and doves, and the moneychangers seated: ¹⁵ and having made a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and scattered the money of the exchangers, and overturned the tables; ¹⁶ and said to those who sold doves, Take these hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.

¹⁷ Then the disciples remembered that it was written, "The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up."

¹⁸ The Jews then addressed him, and said to him, What miracle shewest thou, seeing thou actest thus?

¹⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, Pull down this temple, and in three days I will rear it up again.

²⁰ Then said the Jews, This temple has been forty-six years in building, and canst thou rear it up in three days?

²¹ Now he had spoken with reference to the temple of his own body. ²² When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had spoken thus unto them; and they believed the scriptures, and the word which Jesus had spoken.