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13 Jesus spoke to them all. He said, ‘The Bible says, “God's house will be a place where people come together to pray.” But you have changed it into a place where robbers meet.’[a]

14 Blind people went to meet Jesus in the yard of the temple. People who could not walk very well also went there. Jesus caused them all to become well. 15 The leaders of the priests and teachers of God's Law saw all the powerful things that Jesus did. They also saw children in the yard of the temple who were shouting, ‘Welcome! We pray that God will be good to you, Son of David!’ All these things caused the important Jews to become very angry.

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  1. 21:13 See Isaiah 56:9 and Jeremiah 7:11

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