Matthew 21:12-13

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

12 Then Jesus entered the temple courts ^[a] and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves. ¹

13 And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ ^[b] But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’ ^[c]”

Cross References

• 1. (Mark 11:15–19; Luke 19:45–48; John 2:12–25)

Footnotes

• [a] Literally the temple; also in verses 15 and 23; BYZ and TR the temple of God
• [b] Isaiah 56:7
• [c] Jeremiah 7:11