Luke 19:45-48

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

45 Then Jesus entered the temple courts ^[a] and began to drive out those who were selling there. ¹

46 He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be a house of prayer.’ ^[b] But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’ ^[c]”

47 Jesus was teaching at the temple every day, but the chief priests, scribes, and leaders of the people were intent on killing Him.

48 Yet they could not find a way to do so, because all the people hung on His words.

Cross References

• 1. (Matthew 21:12–17; Mark 11:15–19; John 2:12–25)

Footnotes

• [a] Literally the temple
• [b] Isaiah 56:7
• [c] Jeremiah 7:11