Cleansing the Temple
15 They came to Jerusalem, 11:15 Mt 23:37 and he went into the temple 11:15 Ac 21:26 and began to throw out those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money changers 11:15 Jn 2:15 and the chairs of those selling doves, 16 and would not permit anyone to carry goods through the temple. 17 He was teaching them: "Is it not written, 11:17 Mk 1:2; Ac 15:15My house 11:17 Lk 11:51; Jn 2:17will be called a house of prayer 11:17 Ac 12:5; 16:13for all nations? 11:17 Is 56:7But you have made it a den of thieves! " 11:17 Jr 7:11, 11:17 Jr 7:11
18 The chief priests and the scribes 11:18 Mt 2:4 heard it and started looking for a way to kill him. For they were afraid 11:18 Ps 147:11; Pr 1:7; Rv 14:7 of him, because the whole crowd was astonished by his teaching.
19 Whenever evening came, they would go out of the city.