Matthew 21:13
He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!"
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Referenced Verses
- Jer 7:11 : 11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh.
- Isa 56:7 : 7 even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples."
- Luke 19:46 : 46 saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!"
- Ps 93:5 : 5 Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, Yahweh, forevermore.
- Mark 11:17 : 17 He taught, saying to them, "Isn't it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?' But you have made it a den of robbers!"
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- Luke 19:45-473 verses95%
45 He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it,
46 saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!"
47 He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.
- Mark 11:15-184 verses93%
15 They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple, and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of those who sold the doves.
16 He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple.
17 He taught, saying to them, "Isn't it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?' But you have made it a den of robbers!"
18 The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.
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12 Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers' tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.
- John 2:14-174 verses85%
14 He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.
15 He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers' money, and overthrew their tables.
16 To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!"
17 His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."
- Jer 7:10-123 verses79%
10 and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do all these abominations?
11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh.
12 But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
- Matt 21:14-152 verses75%
14 The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the son of David!" they were indignant,
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23 When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, "By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?"
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7 even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples."
- Luke 21:5-62 verses72%
5 As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said,
6 "As for these things which you see, the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down."
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27 They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders came to him,
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58 "We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.'"
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61 and said, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.'"
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38 Behold, your house is left to you desolate.
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35 Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'"
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29 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,
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11 Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
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19 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."
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21 But he spoke of the temple of his body.
- Mark 13:1-22 verses70%
1 As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!"
2 Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be thrown down."
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40 those who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation."
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42 Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?'
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52 Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?
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17 If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.
- 2 Chr 7:20-212 verses69%
20 then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
21 This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, 'Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?'
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6 But I tell you that one greater than the temple is here.
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7 They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
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1 Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.
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38 All the people came early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him.
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34 But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
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1 It happened on one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, that the priests and scribes came to him with the elders.
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13 But he answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father didn't plant will be uprooted.
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2 Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.
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39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.
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55 In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, "Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn't arrest me.
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27 But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his house.
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4 I will cause it to go out," says Yahweh of Armies, "and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones."