Luke 19:46

46 saying to them, "It is written, 'And my house will be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"

Luke 19:46 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 19:46

Saying unto them, it is written
In ( Isaiah 56:7 )

my house is the house of prayer;
built and devoted for that service:

but ye have made it a den of thieves;
which clause is not written in the above prophecy, but are the words of Christ referring to ( Jeremiah 7:11 ) . The Ethiopic version adds, "and robbers"; and the Persic version adds, "and a place of cut-purses"; (See Gill on Matthew 21:13).

Luke 19:46 In-Context

44 And they will raze you to the ground, [you] and your children within you, and will not leave a stone upon a stone within you, {because} you did not recognize the time of your visitation."

45 And he entered into the temple [courts] [and] began to drive out those who were selling,

46 saying to them, "It is written, 'And my house will be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"

47 And he was teaching every day in the temple [courts], and the chief priests and the scribes and the most prominent men of the people were seeking to destroy him.

48 And they did not find anything they could do, because all the people were paying close attention to [what] they were hearing from him.

Footnotes

• [a]. A quotation from Isa 56:7