Mark 11:17

Webster's Bible (1833)

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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Referenced Verses

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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'!"
  • John 2:16 : 16 To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!"
  • 1 Kgs 8:41-48 : 41 Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for your name's sake 42 (for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he shall come and pray toward this house; 43 hear in heaven, your dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as does your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by my name. 44 If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name; 45 then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. 46 If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near; 47 yet if they shall repent themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly; 48 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name:
  • Hos 12:7 : 7 A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
  • Isa 60:7 : 7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; they shall come up with acceptance on my altar; and I will glorify the house of my glory.

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    45He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it,

    46saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!"

    47He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.

  • Matt 21:12-15
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    12Jesus 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.

    13He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!"

    14The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

    15But 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,

  • John 2:14-17
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    14He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

    15He 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.

    16To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!"

    17His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."

  • Mark 11:15-16
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    15They 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.

    16He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple.

  • Jer 7:10-11
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    10and 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?

    11Is 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.

  • Mark 11:18
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    18The 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.

  • Isa 56:7
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    7even 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.

  • Matt 21:23
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    23When 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?"

  • Mark 11:27-28
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    27They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders came to him,

    28and they began saying to him, "By what authority do you do these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?"

  • Luke 21:5-6
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    5As 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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    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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    2Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.

  • Mark 11:11
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    11Jesus 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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    61and said, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.'"

  • Matt 12:6-7
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    6But I tell you that one greater than the temple is here.

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    49I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you didn't arrest me. But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled."

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    29Those 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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    40those who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation."

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    17But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the chief cornerstone?'

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    38Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

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    21But he spoke of the temple of his body.

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    35Behold, 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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    20then will I 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, will I cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

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    52Jesus 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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    13making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."