Cleansing the Temple

12 Jesus went into the temple[a](A) and threw out all those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.(B) 13 He said to them, “It is written, my house will be called a house of prayer,[b] but you are making it a den of thieves!”(C)[c]

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[d] praise(D)
from the mouths of infants and nursing babies?” [e]

17 Then he left them, went out of the city to Bethany,(E) and spent the night there.

The Barren Fig Tree

18 Early in the morning,(F) as he was returning to the city, he was hungry. 19 Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, he went up to it and found nothing on it except leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” At once the fig tree withered.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:12 Other mss add of God
  2. 21:13 Is 56:7
  3. 21:13 Jr 7:11
  4. 21:16 Or restored
  5. 21:16 Ps 8:2

The Barren Fig Tree Is Cursed

12 The(A) next day when they went out from Bethany, he was hungry. 13 Seeing in the distance a fig(B) tree with leaves, he went to find out if there was anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for it was not the season for figs. 14 He said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit(C) from you again!”(D) And his disciples(E) heard it.

Cleansing the Temple

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

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

19 Whenever evening came, they would go out of the city.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:17 Is 56:7
  2. 11:17 Jr 7:11

Cleansing the Temple

13 The Jewish Passover(A) was near, and so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.(B) 14 In the temple(C) 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,(D) he drove everyone out of the temple with their sheep(E) 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(F) house(G) into a marketplace!”[a](H)

17 And his disciples remembered that it is written: Zeal(I) for your house will consume(J) me.[b](K)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:16 Lit a house of business
  2. 2:17 Ps 69:9

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.(A)

An Adulteress Forgiven

At dawn he went to the temple(B) again, and all the people were coming to him.(C) He sat down(D) and began to teach them.

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The Plot to Kill Jesus

45 Therefore, many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what he did believed in him.(A) 46 But some of them went to the Pharisees(B) and told them what Jesus had done.

47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin(C) and were saying, “What are we going to do since this man is doing many signs? 48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans(D) will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

49 One of them, Caiaphas,(E) who was high priest(F) that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all! 50 You’re not considering that it is to your[a] advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.”(G) 51 He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die(H) for the nation, 52 and not for the nation only, but also to unite the scattered children(I) of God. 53 So from that day on they plotted to kill him.(J)

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  1. 11:50 Other mss read to our

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