Thematic Bible: Jesus expels money-exchangers from
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Jesus went into the Temple and drove out all who were trading there. He overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those trading in doves. He told them: It is written, 'My house is to be named a house of prayer,' but you are making it a hiding place of thieves.
Jesus entered the temple and drove out the merchants. He said: It is written my house shall be a house of prayer. You have made it a den of robbers.
When in Jerusalem he entered the temple and turned over the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of the people who sold doves. He would not allow any man to carry merchandise through the temple. When he taught, he said: Is it not written, my house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? But you have made it a den of robbers.
He made a whip of cords, and chased them all out of the temple, including the sheep and the oxen. He poured out the coins of the moneychangers and overturned the tables. He told those who sold doves: Take these things away. Do not make my Father's house a house of merchandise.