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Matthew 21:13-15
New Catholic Bible
Matthew 21:13-15
New Catholic Bible
13 He said to them, “It is written:
‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’
but you are making it a den of thieves.”[a]
14 The blind and the crippled came to him in the temple, and he cured them. 15 But when the chief priests and the scribes witnessed the wonderful things he was performing and heard the children crying out in the temple area, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became infuriated
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- Matthew 21:13 Jesus combines two Old Testament prophecies: Isa 56:7 (“My house shall be called a house of prayer”) and Jer 7:11 (“Has this house, which bears my name become in your eyes a den of thieves?”).
