Matthew 21:14-16
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
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[a] crying-out in the temple and saying “Hosanna to the Son of David”— were indignant 16 and said to Him, “Do You hear what these boys are saying?” And Jesus says to them, “Yes— did you never read [in Ps 8:2] that ‘You prepared-Yourself praise out of the mouth[b] of children and nursing ones’?”
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- Matthew 21:15 Perhaps these were twelve-year-olds like Jesus in Lk 2:43.
- Matthew 21:16 If God accepts praise from the first words of the smallest children in Ps 8, why not these boys now? He will bring it from the stones, if necessary (Lk 19:40).
Matthew 21:14-16
New International Version
14 The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them.(A) 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,”(B) they were indignant.(C)
16 “Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him.
“Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read,
Footnotes
- Matthew 21:16 Psalm 8:2 (see Septuagint)
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