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13 Jesus said to them, “It is written [in Scripture], My house shall be called a house of prayer’; but you are making it a robbers’ den.”(A)

14 And the blind and the lame came to Him in [the porticoes and courts of] the temple area, and He healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful and miraculous things that Jesus had done, and heard the [a]boys who were shouting in [the porticoes and courts of] the temple [in praise and adoration], “Hosanna to the Son of David (the Messiah),” they became indignant

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  1. Matthew 21:15 There would have been a large number of twelve year old boys in the temple preparing to celebrate their first Passover and their ceremonial entry into manhood.

13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’[a](A) but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’[b](B)

14 The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them.(C) 15 But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,”(D) they were indignant.(E)

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  1. Matthew 21:13 Isaiah 56:7
  2. Matthew 21:13 Jer. 7:11