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

¹² And Jesus went into the temple, and cast out all that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the mony-changers, and the seats of them that sold doves; ¹³ And saith to them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves.

¹⁴ And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. ¹⁵ But the chief priests and the scribes, seeing the wonders that he did, and the children crying in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David, ¹⁶ were sore displeased, And said to him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith to them, Yea: have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

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

¹⁵ And they come to Jerusalem. And Jesus going into the temple, drove out them that bought and sold in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the mony-changers, ¹⁶ and the seats of them that sold doves, And suffered not that any one should carry any vessel thro' the temple.

¹⁷ And he taught, saying to them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations an house of prayer? But ye have made it a den of thieves. ¹⁸ And the scribes and chief priests heard it and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his teaching.

¹⁹ And when evening was come, he went out of the city. And passing by in the morning,

⁴⁵ And going into the temple, he drove out them that sold and them that bought therein. ⁴⁶ Saying to them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves.

⁴⁷ And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people, sought to destroy him, ⁴⁸ And found not what they might do; for all the people hung upon him to hear him.

¹⁴ and sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting. ¹⁵ And having made a scourge of rushes, he drove all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers money, ¹⁶ and otherthrew the tables, And said to them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of traffick.

¹⁷ And his disciples remembered that it is written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

¹⁸ Then answered the Jews and said to him, What sign shewest thou us, seeing thou dost these things?

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

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

²¹ But he spake of the temple of his body. When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; ²² and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.