12 Bible Verses about Status Of The Temple

Woe to you, blind guides that you are! you say, 'Swear by the sanctuary, and it means nothing; but swear by the gold of the sanctuary, and the oath is binding.'

and told them, "It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you make it a den of robbers."

also he taught them. "Is it not written," he asked, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations? You have made it a den of robbers."

"It is written," he told them, "my house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers."

Then the devil conveyed him to the holy city and, placing him on the pinnacle of the temple,

Then he brought him to Jerusalem and placing him on the pinnacle of the temple said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down from this;

So Jesus left the temple and went on his way. His disciples came forward to point out to him the temple-buildings,

As he went out of the temple one of his disciples said to him, "Look, teacher, what a size these stones and buildings are!"

Some were speaking of the temple with its ornamentation of splendid stones and votive gifts, but he said,

(His disciples recalled the scripture saying, I am consumed with zeal for thy house.)

You are senseless and blind! for which is the greater, the gold or the sanctuary that makes the gold sacred?

he who swears by the sanctuary swears by it and by Him who inhabits it;