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45 Going into the Temple he began to throw out everyone who had set up shop, selling everything and anything.
45
When Jesus entered the temple courts, he began to drive out those who were selling.
46 He said, "It's written in Scripture, My house is a house of prayer; You have turned it into a religious bazaar."
46
“It is written,” he said to them, “ ‘My house will be a house of prayer’; but you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
47 From then on he taught each day in the Temple. The high priests, religion scholars, and the leaders of the people were trying their best to find a way to get rid of him.
47
Every day he was teaching at the temple. But the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people were trying to kill him.
48 But with the people hanging on every word he spoke, they couldn't come up with anything.
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Yet they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on his words.
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