46 and he said, “It is written, my house will be a house of prayer,(A) but you have made it a den of thieves!”[a](B)

47 Every day he was teaching(C) in the temple. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people were looking for a way to kill(D) him, 48 but they could not find a way to do it, because all the people(E) were captivated by what they heard.

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  1. 19:46 Is 56:7; Jr 7:11

46 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be a house of prayer’[a];(A) but you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’[b](B)

47 Every day he was teaching at the temple.(C) But the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people were trying to kill him.(D) 48 Yet they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on his words.

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  1. Luke 19:46 Isaiah 56:7
  2. Luke 19:46 Jer. 7:11