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14 (A)The blind and the lame[a] approached him in the temple area, and he cured them. 15 When the chief priests and the scribes saw the wondrous things[b] he was doing, and the children crying out in the temple area, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant 16 [c](B)and said to him, “Do you hear what they are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes; and have you never read the text, ‘Out of the mouths of infants and nurslings you have brought forth praise’?”

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Footnotes

  1. 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.
  2. 21:15 The wondrous things: the healings.
  3. 21:16 ‘Out of the mouths…praise’: cf. Ps 8:3 LXX.