Matthew 21:13-15
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
13 (A)And he said to them, “It is written:
‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’[a]
but you are making it a den of thieves.”
14 (B)The blind and the lame[b] approached him in the temple area, and he cured them. 15 When the chief priests and the scribes saw the wondrous things[c] he was doing, and the children crying out in the temple area, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant
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- 21:13 ‘My house…prayer’: cf. Is 56:7. Matthew omits the final words of the quotation, “for all peoples” (“all nations”), possibly because for him the worship of the God of Israel by all nations belongs to the time after the resurrection; see Mt 28:19. A den of thieves: the phrase is taken from Jer 7:11.
- 21:14 The blind and the lame: according to 2 Sm 5:8 LXX the blind and the lame were forbidden to enter “the house of the Lord,” the temple. These are the last of Jesus’ healings in Matthew.
- 21:15 The wondrous things: the healings.
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