Matthew 21:12-17

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

12 ¹And Jesus entered the temple^[a] and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of ²the money-changers and the seats of those who sold ³pigeons.

13 He said to them, “It is written, ⁴‘My house shall be called a house of prayer, ’ but ⁵you make it a den of robbers. ”

14 ⁶And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

15 ⁷But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, ⁸“Hosanna to the Son of David! ” they were indignant,

16 and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying? ” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; ⁹have you never read, ¹⁰“‘Out of the mouth of ¹¹infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’? ”

17 And ¹²leaving them, he ¹³went out of the city to ¹⁴Bethany and lodged there.