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13 And He says to them, “It has been written [in Isa 56:7]: ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’. But you are making it a den of robbers[a]”. 14 And blind ones and lame ones came to Him in the temple, and He cured them. 15 But the chief priests and the scribes— having seen the marvelous things which He did, and the boys[b] crying-out in the temple and saying “Hosanna to the Son of David”— were indignant

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  1. Matthew 21:13 Or, plunderers, bandits.
  2. Matthew 21:15 Perhaps these were twelve-year-olds like Jesus in Lk 2:43.

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