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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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  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.

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,

“‘From the lips of children and infants
    you, Lord, have called forth your praise’[a]?”(D)

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  1. Matthew 21:16 Psalm 8:2 (see Septuagint)