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

¹² Then Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple courts, and turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves. ¹³ And he said to them, "It is written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you are turning it into a den of robbers!"

¹⁴ The blind and lame came to him in the temple courts, and he healed them. ¹⁵ But when the chief priests and the experts in the law saw the wonderful things he did and heard the children crying out in the temple courts, "Hosanna to the Son of David," they became indignant ¹⁶ and said to him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes. Have you never read, 'Out of the mouths of children and nursing infants you have prepared praise for yourself'?"

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

¹⁵ Then they came to Jerusalem. Jesus entered the temple area and began to drive out those who were selling and buying in the temple courts. He turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves, ¹⁶ and he would not permit anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts.

¹⁷ Then he began to teach them and said, "Is it not written: 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you have turned it into a den of robbers!" ¹⁸ The chief priests and the experts in the law heard it and they considered how they could assassinate him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed by his teaching.

¹⁹ When evening came, Jesus and his disciples went out of the city.

⁴⁵ Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling things there, ⁴⁶ saying to them, "It is written, 'My house will be a house of prayer,' but you have turned it into a den of robbers!"

⁴⁷ Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him, ⁴⁸ but they could not find a way to do it, for all the people hung on his words.

¹⁴ He found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables. ¹⁵ So he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple courts, with the sheep and the oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. ¹⁶ To those who sold the doves he said, "Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father's house a marketplace!"

¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will devour me."

¹⁸ So then the Jewish leaders responded, "What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?"

¹⁹ Jesus replied, "Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again."

²⁰ Then the Jewish leaders said to him, "This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?"

²¹ But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body. ²² So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.