Mark 11:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ And He taught and said to them, Is it not written, My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? But you have turned it into a den of robbers. [Isa. 56:7; Jer. 7:11.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And he taught, and said unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? but ye have made it a den of robbers.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ He taught them, “Hasn’t it been written, My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations? But you’ve turned it into a hideout for crooks.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And he taught them, saying: "Is it not written: 'For my house shall be called the house of prayer for all nations?' But you have made it into a den of robbers."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And he taught, saying to them: Is it not written, My house shall be called the house of prayer to all nations? But you have made it a den of thieves.

Mark 11:17 Cross References

Isaiah 56:7

these I will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar, for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.

Isaiah 60:7

All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; they shall be acceptable on my altar, and I will glorify my glorious house.

Jeremiah 7:11

Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your sight? I, too, am watching, says the Lord.

Hosea 12:7

A trader in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.

Mark 11:16

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

Luke 19:46

and he said, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”

John 2:14

In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves and the money changers seated at their tables.

John 2:16

He told those who were selling the doves, “Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace!”