Mark 11:16-18

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁶ and would not permit anyone to carry goods through the temple complex.

¹⁷ Then He began to teach them: “Is it not written,^(A) My house^(B) will be called a house of prayer^(C) for all nations?^[a] But you have made it a den of thieves!”^{(D)[b] 18} Then the chief priests and the scribes^(E) heard it and started looking for a way to destroy Him. For they were afraid^(F) of Him, because the whole crowd was astonished by His teaching.