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46 saying to them, “It is written,

‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’[a]

but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’”[b]

47 And He was teaching every day in the Temple. The ruling kohanim and the Torah scholars, even the leaders of the people, were trying to destroy Him; 48 but they could not find any way to do it, because all the people were hanging on His words.

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46 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be a house of prayer’[a];(A) but you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’[b](B)

47 Every day he was teaching at the temple.(C) But the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people were trying to kill him.(D) 48 Yet they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on his words.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 19:46 Isaiah 56:7
  2. Luke 19:46 Jer. 7:11