“It is written,” he told them, “ ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’ ”
He told them, “It is written that the Lord said, ‘My house will be a house where people can pray.’ But you have made it a ‘den for robbers.’ ”
Then he taught them, saying, “It is written that the Lord said, ‘My house will be called a house where people from all nations can pray.’ But you’ve made it a ‘den for robbers.’ ”
This has happened to make what’s written in their Law come true. It says, ‘They hated me without any reason.’
“In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “because this is what the prophet has written:
Then Jesus entered the temple courtyard. He began to drive out those who were selling there.