Cleansing the Temple

¹⁵ They came to Jerusalem,^(A) and he went into the temple^(B) and began to throw out those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money changers^(C) 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,^(D) My house^(E) will be called a house of prayer^(F) for all nations?^[a] But you have made it a den of thieves!”^[b](G)

¹⁸ The chief priests and the scribes^(H) heard it and started looking for a way to kill him. For they were afraid^(I) of him, because the whole crowd was astonished by his teaching.

Cleansing the Temple

⁴⁵ He^(A) went into the temple and began to throw out those who were selling,^{[a] 46} and he said, “It is written, my house will be a house of prayer,^(B) but you have made it a den of thieves!”^[b](C)

⁴⁷ Every day he was teaching^(D) in the temple. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people were looking for a way to kill^(E) him,

¹⁴ In the temple^(A) he found people selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and he also found the money changers sitting there. ¹⁵ After making a whip out of cords,^(B) he drove everyone out of the temple with their sheep^(C) and oxen. He also poured out the money changers’ coins and overturned the tables. ¹⁶ He told those who were selling doves, “Get these things out of here! Stop turning my Father’s^(D) house^(E) into a marketplace!”^[a](F)