Matthew 21:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Psalm 93:5

Your decrees are very sure; holiness befits your house, O Lord, forevermore.

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.

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.

Matthew 2:5

They told him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it has been written by the prophet:

Mark 11:17

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.”

Luke 19:45

Then he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling things there,

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 15:25

It was to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’