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46 He said, “It is written in the Scriptures, ‘My Temple will be a house for prayer.’[a] But you have changed it into a ‘hideout for robbers’!”[b]

47 Jesus taught in the Temple every day. The leading priests, the experts on the law, and some of the leaders of the people wanted to kill Jesus. 48 But they did not know how they could do it, because all the people were listening closely to him.

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Footnotes

  1. 19:46 ‘My Temple . . . prayer.’ Quotation from Isaiah 56:7.
  2. 19:46 ‘hideout for robbers’ Quotation from Jeremiah 7:11.

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