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

¹² And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and did cast forth all those selling and buying in the temple, and the tables of the money-changers he overturned, and the seats of those selling the doves, ¹³ and he saith to them, 'It hath been written, My house a house of prayer shall be called, but ye did make it a den of robbers.'

¹⁴ And there came to him blind and lame men in the temple, and he healed them, ¹⁵ and the chief priests and the scribes having seen the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, 'Hosanna to the Son of David,' were much displeased; ¹⁶ and they said to him, 'Hearest thou what these say?' And Jesus saith to them, 'Yes, did ye never read, that, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou didst prepare praise?'

¹⁷ And having left them, he went forth out of the city to Bethany, and did lodge there,

¹⁵ And they come to Jerusalem, and Jesus having gone into the temple, began to cast forth those selling and buying in the temple, and the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those selling the doves, he overthrew, ¹⁶ and he did not suffer that any might bear a vessel through the temple,

¹⁷ and he was teaching, saying to them, 'Hath it not been written -- My house a house of prayer shall be called for all the nations, and ye did make it a den of robbers?' ¹⁸ And the scribes and the chief priests heard, and they were seeking how they shall destroy him, for they were afraid of him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching;

¹⁹ and when evening came, he was going forth without the city.

⁴⁵ And having entered into the temple, he began to cast forth those selling in it, and those buying, ⁴⁶ saying to them, 'It hath been written, My house is a house of prayer -- but ye made it a den of robbers.'

⁴⁷ And he was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes were seeking to destroy him -- also the chiefs of the people -- ⁴⁸ and they were not finding what they shall do, for all the people were hanging 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 whip of small cords, he put all forth out of the temple, also the sheep, and the oxen; and of the money-changers he poured out the coins, and the tables he overthrew, ¹⁶ and to those selling the doves he said, '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 did eat me up;'

¹⁸ the Jews then answered and said to him, 'What sign dost thou shew to us -- that thou dost these things?'

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

²⁰ The Jews, therefore, said, 'Forty and six years was this sanctuary building, and wilt thou in three days raise it up?'

²¹ but he spake concerning the sanctuary of his body; ²² when, then, he was raised out of the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this to them, and they believed the Writing, and the word that Jesus said.