He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”
Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the Lord.
these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”
saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”
And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”
Your decrees are very trustworthy; holiness befits your house, O Lord, forevermore.
But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’
They told him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet:
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