And he said to them, “It is written: ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a den of thieves.”
Has this house which bears my name become in your eyes a den of thieves? I have seen it for myself!—oracle of the Lord.
Them I will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer; Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on my altar, For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.
saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.’”
Then he taught them saying, “Is it not written: ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples’? But you have made it a den of thieves.”
Your decrees are firmly established; holiness befits your house, Lord, for all the length of days.
But in order that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without cause.’
They said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it has been written through the prophet:
Then Jesus entered the temple area and proceeded to drive out those who were selling things,