NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 13

Matthew 21:13

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He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”

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THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Matthew 21:13 in context

Matthew 21:10–16

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When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”

11

The multitudes said, “This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”

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Jesus entered into the temple of God and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.

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He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”

14

The lame and the blind came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

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But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were indignant,

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and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?”

Jesus said to them, “Yes. Did you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of children and nursing babies, you have perfected praise’?”

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  1. Isaiah 56:7
  2. Jeremiah 7:11

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