13 And he said to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’[a] but you have made it a cave of robbers!”

14 And the blind and the lame came up to him in the temple courts[b] and he healed them. 15 But when[c] the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children shouting in the temple courts[d] and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 21:13 A quotation from Isa 56:7
  2. Matthew 21:14 Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
  3. Matthew 21:15 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal
  4. Matthew 21:15 Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself