Jesus Cleanses the Temple

Matthew 21

12 And Jesus went into the temple ( 1 whole temple enclosure) and drove out all who bought and sold in the 2 sacred place, and He turned over the 3 four-footed tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who sold doves. 13 He said to them, The Scripture says, My house shall be called a house of prayer; but you have made it a den of robbers.

14 And the blind and the lame came to Him in the 4 porches and courts of the temple, and He cured them. 15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that He did and the boys and the girls and the 5 youths and the maidens crying out in the 6 porches and courts of the temple, Hosanna (O be propitious, graciously inclined) to the Son of David! they were indignant.

16 And they said to Him, Do You hear what these are saying? And Jesus replied to them, Yes; have you never read, Out of the mouths of babes and unweaned infants You have made (provided) perfect praise?

17 And leaving them, He departed from the city and went out to Bethany and lodged there.

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