Matthew 21:15-17
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
15 But the chief priests and the scribes— having seen the marvelous things which He did, and the boys[a] crying-out in the temple and saying “Hosanna to the Son of David”— were indignant 16 and said to Him, “Do You hear what these boys are saying?” And Jesus says to them, “Yes— did you never read [in Ps 8:2] that ‘You prepared-Yourself praise out of the mouth[b] of children and nursing ones’?” 17 And having left them behind, He went outside of the city to Bethany and spent-the-night there.
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- Matthew 21:15 Perhaps these were twelve-year-olds like Jesus in Lk 2:43.
- Matthew 21:16 If God accepts praise from the first words of the smallest children in Ps 8, why not these boys now? He will bring it from the stones, if necessary (Lk 19:40).
Matthew 21:15-17
New International Version
15 But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,”(A) they were indignant.(B)
16 “Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him.
“Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read,
17 And he left them and went out of the city to Bethany,(D) where he spent the night.
Footnotes
- Matthew 21:16 Psalm 8:2 (see Septuagint)
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