Matthew 21:12-19
Cleansing the Temple Complex
12 Jesus went into the temple complex(a)(A) and drove out all those buying and selling in the temple. He overturned the money changers’ tables and the chairs of those selling doves.(B)
13 And He said to them, “It is written, My house will be called a house of prayer.(b) But you are making it a den of thieves!”(C)(c)
Children Praise Jesus
14 The blind and the lame came to Him in the temple complex, and He healed them.
15 When the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonders that He did and the children shouting in the temple complex, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant
16 and said to Him, “Do You hear what these children are saying?”
“Yes,” Jesus told them. “Have you never read:
“Yes,” Jesus told them. “Have you never read:
The Barren Fig Tree
Footnotes:
a.
Matthew 21:12: Other mss add of God
b.
Matthew 21:13: Is 56:7
c.
Matthew 21:13: Jr 7:11
d.
Matthew 21:16: Or restored
e.
Matthew 21:16: Ps 8:2