Luke 19:46

46 “It is written,” he said to them, “ ‘My house will be a house of prayer’^[a] ; but you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’^[b] ”

Luke 19:46 in Other Translations

46 Saying unto them, It is written,My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.

46 saying to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers."

46 He said to them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of thieves.”

46 He said, "It's written in Scripture, My house is a house of prayer; You have turned it into a religious bazaar."

46 and He said, "It is written, My house will be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves !"

Luke 19:46 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 19:46

Saying unto them, it is written
In ( Isaiah 56:7 )

my house is the house of prayer;
built and devoted for that service:

but ye have made it a den of thieves;
which clause is not written in the above prophecy, but are the words of Christ referring to ( Jeremiah 7:11 ) . The Ethiopic version adds, "and robbers"; and the Persic version adds, "and a place of cut-purses"; (See Gill on Matthew 21:13).

Luke 19:46 In-Context

44 They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.”

45 When Jesus entered the temple courts, he began to drive out those who were selling.

46 “It is written,” he said to them, “ ‘My house will be a house of prayer’; but you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”

47 Every day he was teaching at the temple. But the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people were trying to kill him.

48 Yet they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on his words.

Cross References

• 1. Isaiah 56:7
• 2. Jeremiah 7:11

Footnotes

• [a]. Isaiah 56:7
• [b]. Jer. 7:11