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.

Cross References

• 1. 21:12 For ver. 12-16, see Mark 11:15-18; Luke 19:45-47; [John 2:14-16]
• 2. 21:12 [Ex. 30:13]
• 3. 21:12 Lev. 1:14; 5:7; 12:8; Luke 2:24
• 4. 21:13 Cited from Isa. 56:7
• 5. 21:13 Jer. 7:11
• 6. 21:14 ch. 11:5; 15:31
• 7. 21:15 [Luke 19:39, 40]
• 8. 21:15 [See ver. 9 above]
• 9. 21:16 ver. 42; ch. 12:3, 5; 19:4; 22:31
• 10. 21:16 Cited from Ps. 8:2 (Gk.)
• 11. 21:16 ch. 11:25
• 12. 21:17 ch. 16:4
• 13. 21:17 Mark 11:19; [Luke 21:37]
• 14. 21:17 Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29; 24:50; John 11:18

Footnotes

• [a] 21:12 Some manuscripts add 'of God'