Matthew 21:12-17

The Cleansing of the Temple

12 And Jesus entered the temple [courts] and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who were selling doves.

13 And he said to them, "It is written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"

14 And the blind and the lame came up to him in the temple [courts] and he healed them.

15 But [when] the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful [things] that he did, and the children shouting in the temple [courts] and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant.

16 And they said to him, "Do you hear what these [children] are saying?" So Jesus said to them, "Yes, have you never read, 'Out of the mouths of children and nursing babies you have prepared for yourself praise'?"

17 And leaving them, he went outside of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here "[courts]" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
• [b]. A quotation from Isa 56:7
• [c]. *Here "[courts]" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
• [d]. *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal
• [e]. *Here "[courts]" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
• [f]. *The word "[children]" is not in the Greek text but is implied
• [g]. A quotation from Ps 8:2