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Mark 11:16-18
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16 And he did not permit anyone to carry objects[a] through the temple courts.[b] 17 And he began to teach[c] and was saying to them, “Is it not written,

‘My house will be called a house of prayer
    for all the nations,’[d]

but you have made it a cave of robbers!” 18 And the chief priests and the scribes heard it,[e] and began considering[f] how they could destroy him. For they were afraid of him because the whole crowd was astounded by his teaching.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 11:16 Or “merchandise”
  2. Mark 11:16 *Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
  3. Mark 11:17 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to teach”)
  4. Mark 11:17 A quotation from Isa 56:7
  5. Mark 11:18 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  6. Mark 11:18 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began considering”)
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