Mark 11:15-17

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

15 ¹And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of ²the money-changers and the seats of those who sold ³pigeons.

16 And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple.

17 And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ⁴‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But ⁵you have made it a den of robbers. ”

Cross References

• 1. 11:15 For ver. 15-18, see Matt. 21:12-16; Luke 19:45-47; [John 2:14-16]
• 2. 11:15 [Ex. 30:13]
• 3. 11:15 Lev. 1:14; 5:7; 12:8; Luke 2:24
• 4. 11:17 Cited from Isa. 56:7
• 5. 11:17 Jer. 7:11