Cleansing the Temple
12 Jesus went into the temple 21:12 Other mss add of God, 21:12–16 Mk 11:15–18; Lk 19:45–47; Jn 2:14–16 and threw out all those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves. 21:12 Ex 30:13; Lv 1:14; 5:7; 12:8; Dt 14:2513 He said to them, "It is written, my house will be called a house of prayer, 21:13 Is 56:7but you are making it a den of thieves! " 21:13 Jr 7:11, 21:13 Jr 7:11
Children Praise Jesus
14 The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15 When the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonders that he did and the children shouting in the temple, "Hosanna to the Son of David! " they were indignant 16 and said to him, "Do you hear what these children are saying? "
Jesus replied, "Yes, have you never read:
You have prepared 21:16 Or restoredpraise 21:16 Ps 8:2; Mt 11:25; 12:3,5; 19:4; 22:31
from the mouths of infants and nursing babies? " 21:16 Ps 8:2
17 Then he left them, went out of the city to Bethany, 21:17 Mt 26:6; Mk 11:1; Lk 19:29; 24:50; Jn 11:18 and spent the night there.