44 And they will raze you to the ground, you and your children within you, and will not leave a stone upon a stone within you, because[a] you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”

The Cleansing of the Temple

45 And he entered into the temple courts[b] and[c] began to drive out those who were selling, 46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘And my house will be a house of prayer,’[d] but you have made it a cave of robbers!”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 19:44 Literally “in return for which”
  2. Luke 19:45 Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
  3. Luke 19:45 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“entered”) has been translated as a finite verb
  4. Luke 19:46 A quotation from Isa 56:7